Posted on 07/12/2021 10:53:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai
It is called reader loyalty. And it still exists. But only just.
“What we have recently experienced is that a growing number of readers have been phoning in to our offices to let us know how important it is for them that we are still putting out a print version of our paper.”
Those are the words of Benjamin Piel, the editor-in-chief of the MindenerTageblatt, a daily newspaper published in the town of Minden in the northwestern German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Its circulation is currently running at around 26,000. But that number is shrinking — despite those loyal subscribers — with sales falling by a quarter in the past two decades or so. […]
Similar trends in the US have led to the emergence of what are known as “news deserts.” Whole swathes of the country are no longer getting the kind of basic information that local media tend to provide. In the past 15 years, more than 2,000 papers have been forced to close down across America. […]
… [Sameer Padania] and a number of colleagues are behind a report called A New Deal for Journalism, which was developed by the Forum on Information and Democracy with the support of the organization Reporters without Borders. The aim: to create an ambitious framework for the future of journalism.
The New Deal that the report calls for is a fundamentally new approach designed to boost media outlets — print, digital or linear — and keep them in business. […]
The idea is that the driving forces behind the realization of the New Deal will be governments and key players in democratic societies. The Forum is putting forward a number of recommendations to help countries earmark as much as 0.1% of their annual gross national product for journalism. …
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...
>> “news deserts.”
GTH, “news” — you suck ass! You lie, you deceive, you mislead, you omit — you destroy!!!
There are no deserts. People are gathering the information in pieces to form the truth.
Who needs newspapers when we have government press secretaries and AppleNews to tell us what’s important. Like, Brittany Spears’ conservatorship hearing and the 3rd rate British immigrant prince’s production deal with Netflix. All very important developments for a self-governing and aware citizenry.
That’ll sure be bad news for Reporters Without Borders, lol. They wanted a free ride at taxpayers’ expense.
The remaining telephone directory books are less than half the size of their forebears, too.
As we both note, nobody wants to pay to be lied to. If the logic is that hard copies are more secure than the digital equivalent, then print objective truth.
The left-wing media are the “news desert”; can’t find any news in them.
Govern funded media is Government Media. Like with every authoritarian political system, they’ll be the press office.
I looked up who founded Reporters Without Borders, and the first name that came up was Robert Ménard, who was in France’s Revolutionary Communist Party and Socialist Party in the past. Not much to say after that . . .
Good find!
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