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Last Year Tough for Print Media as Newspapers Lose $64B in Share Value
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| January 2, 2009
| Jeff Poor
Posted on 01/02/2009 12:03:48 PM PST by Rufus2007
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Yet, they still won't change their ways...
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posted on
01/02/2009 12:03:49 PM PST
by
Rufus2007
To: Rufus2007
I’ve said it before...
Pandering to exactly half your audience by bashing the other half of your audience, and expecting 100% readership shows the stupidity of this form of media.
And the greater stupidity is that they STILL will not admit this even while standing on a sinking ship.
Pride goeth before a fall.
To: Rufus2007
This is my first post as a new member here. I hope I’m doing this right.
It’s too bad to see the old media die. As an old movie fan, I enjoy seeing movies with hard-boiled reporters who leave no stone unturned... Of course, our media hasn’t been that in several decades, if at all.
To: Rufus2007
boy, the tree huggers should be happy. look at all the trees we are going to save by not having the NY times hanging around hehe.
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posted on
01/02/2009 12:08:15 PM PST
by
rstark56
To: autumnraine
Yes. It’s true that I haven’t bought an LA Times in years because of the the shoddy liberal journalism on their frontpage and in their Metro sections, however, I do miss some of the other sections (books, Entertainment, and business.) The main reason they are going out of business though is not the wrath of conservatives (though we could help prolong their life), but Craigslist.
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posted on
01/02/2009 12:09:41 PM PST
by
Smogger
(It's the WOT Stupid)
To: Rufus2007
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posted on
01/02/2009 12:10:09 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
To: Bill_Dozier
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posted on
01/02/2009 12:11:00 PM PST
by
FrankR
(“Turtle up”, economically, for the duration of the 0bamanation.)
To: rstark56
Newsprint paper is made from cottonwood trees - fast growing. Majority of newsprint paper comes from Canada ...
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posted on
01/02/2009 12:11:30 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
To: Bill_Dozier
I think the consensus here would be that we would love to see an army of hard boiled reporters turning over stones and exposing a lot of the fraud, waste, and abuse committed by politicians of all parties. The reality is that the bias is so severe that the operative mode is that no republican mistake is too small to magnify, and no democrat mistake is too great to minimize. Piss on the media.
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posted on
01/02/2009 12:13:15 PM PST
by
Enterprise
(No Presidency for illegal aliens from Kenya.)
To: Bill_Dozier
As an old movie fan, I enjoy seeing movies with hard-boiled reporters who leave no stone unturned...Deadline USA, starring Humphrey Bogart. Nowadays, the Drive-By Media is the mouthpiece for Organized Government.
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posted on
01/02/2009 12:13:38 PM PST
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: rstark56
What will we line our bird cages and cat litter boxes with when the papers go belly up!!!
To: Bill_Dozier
Let me second the welcome to Free Republic.
I agree that what's happening to the old media is sad in a sense, but they have definitely brought it upon themselves with their incredible arrogance.
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posted on
01/02/2009 12:16:09 PM PST
by
jpl
(Episode 44: A New Dope - coming soon to a country near you.)
To: Rufus2007
My tagline says it all...
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posted on
01/02/2009 12:17:32 PM PST
by
MarineBrat
(The New York Times is a Communist Kamikaze.)
To: Bill_Dozier
Welcome.
Are you sure you’re not DJ Dozier?
To: autumnraine
Pandering to exactly half your audience by bashing the other half of your audience, and expecting 100% readership shows the stupidity of this form of media.Especially when the 50% they pander to mostly belong to the not for profit sector.
Private sector aka mostly Republicans are the business people who take out most of the ads.
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posted on
01/02/2009 12:25:17 PM PST
by
xtinct
("There's a sucker born every minute." P.T. Barnum)
To: Rufus2007
The left never was very good at fast thinking.
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posted on
01/02/2009 12:36:34 PM PST
by
Vaduz
To: Nailbiter
Start saving the free local weekly news that comes in the mail.
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posted on
01/02/2009 1:11:08 PM PST
by
Jenny217
To: FrankR
Thanks to everyone who extended a welcoming to me.
As for the DJ Dozier - no relation but you can imagine with my name I was teased with “Bull Dozer” comments while in grade school.
To: Bill_Dozier
It’s too bad to see the old media die. As an old movie fan, I enjoy seeing movies with hard-boiled reporters who leave no stone unturned... Of course, our media hasn’t been that in several decades, if at all.
Sad, isn't it? Reporters used to follow stories wherever they led, be it politicians, the famous, whatever. There are many stories, not just in movies, of reporters risking their lives to bring the truth to the public. Today, they would realize the implications of a story and huddle with their editors, and decide whether to report it, distort it or can it based upon their personal views, which in most newsrooms are liberal. Those old-time reporters and their counterparts in the old movies would shun today's "reporters" with disdain.
And welcome to FR!
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posted on
01/02/2009 2:28:55 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(The press and the Barackolytes view you as a miracle worker...so turn the economy into wine, Barry.)
To: Bill_Dozier
Great Caesar's ghost! Perry White was a comic book character.
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