Posted on 02/05/2009 3:34:34 AM PST by ForGod'sSake
SEATTLE — A group devoted to keeping two daily newspapers in Seattle is pushing a community effort to buy the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from Hearst Corp.
It might be the best hope for keeping the P-I alive, the Committee for a Two-Newspaper Town said Wednesday, adding that it would welcome the involvement of political, business, labor and community leaders.
“The goal is to ensure that the P-I, which has been publishing local news daily since 1863, is not lost forever,” the group said in a news release.
Hearst announced Jan. 9 that it was putting the P-I up for sale, and that if no buyer was found within 60 days, the paper would be shut down or converted to an Internet-only publication with a skeleton staff. On Wednesday, in response to questions from the group, Hearst wrote to say it still had made no decision on whether to keep the P-I as an online publication.
Seattle attorney Anne Bremner, co-chairwoman of Committee for a Two-Newspaper Town, said her group would support any plan that could work, whether that means perpetuating the P-I as a nonprofit or low-profit Web site or even finding a buyer to continue printing the paper — an extremely unlikely outcome.
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Seattle may go paperless...
I thought this paper had already kicked it?!! LOL
They're doing everything they can to keep the bucket upright. Just a matter of time though.
There is no better proof than this that the Drive-By Media is a tool of the “Establishment.” City Hall. The CourtHouse Crowd. Washington. The State Capitol. Politicians.
We saw it in Bristol, CT, Denver and with all the calls for government newspaper bailouts.
The Drive-By Media is an adjunct to Big Government. And it’s been that way for years.
“That’s the way it is...” really wasn’t.
Yes, that is real freedom of the press. Independent news indeed.
| "freedom of the press does not mean freedom from the truth" |
What!!?? You mean that doddering old fool had it wrong all along??? I'm crushed I tell ya...
Wouldn't it be a sight to behold though. "News" people, political hacks and businessmen all jockeying for position. Har!
Most big cities around the globe have 3 or 5 or even 10 newspapers.
In places I’ve visited you’re likely to see an array of trashy tabloids, scandalous broadsheets, thoughtful “establishment” newspapers, and opposition dailies.
It’s complicated, but IMO America’s advanced and ubiquitous adoption of Internet tech has destroyed the advertising model that supports newspapers, because people can get all the free opinion blogs and news they like online.
For many of us on FR it’s the liberal slant that’s driven us away from city newspapers. But for much of America I think it’s just a matter of “Why bother with a newspaper when I can read it online?”
This piece, in my opinion, was one of the most important I’ve seen posted in a long while. It predicts that the explosion of blogs and websites - each of which is a potential advertising spot - will shatter the business model to such a degree that advertising costs will approach zero. If that happens, few will be able to make money from them.
http://weblog.blogads.com/1756/the-end-of-advertising
The end of advertising?
Remember the “Free Doritos” ad from the superbowl? It was made by two guys for a couple thousand dollars.
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/02/embrace-the-crowd-already/#more-1630
Embrace the crowd, already
Democrats always throw good money after bad.
The “liberal slant”? How about the liberal tsunami? Extreme leftism escaped the editorial pages 30 years ago and it now outrightly infuses everything from sports stories to cooking articles to travelogues to the comics page to automobile reviews. It’s just nauseating.
>>>> The “liberal slant”? How about the liberal tsunami?
You’re absolutely right, and I’ll go with that. A tsunami.
However what’s annoying is that the liberal infestation and tsunami of socialism, groupthink, and collectivism, is promoted by the arrogant and self-centered leftist MSM as “objective journalism” which is a ridiculous and pathetically pompous (aka “narcissist”) fiction.
You might think that allegedly “smart” and “reality based” people would see the sick hilarity and monumental egomania in that kind of self-assertion.
But they can’t, because that’s what being a narcissist is all about. Impossible egomania and self centeredness combined with total self delusion.
In America’s historic past, newspapers have always been proudly opinionated and ambitious to serve their particular audience. “Objective journalism” was, is, and will always be a pathetic ruse played on an ignorant and naive public.
How people in their right ethical minds could wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and call themselves “gatekeepers of the news” is beyond me.
It seems to me to be some kind of mental illness.
How people in their right ethical minds could wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and call themselves “gatekeepers of the news” is beyond me.Mass media journalists fancy themselves as priests of humanism religion. Walter Lippmann (the eminent columnist who spoke for the American political elite and urged Franklin Delano Roosevelt to assume dictatorial powers) proclaims newsprint holy scripture.
It seems to me to be some kind of mental illness.
The news of the day as it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day. Now the power to determine each day what shall seem important and what shall be neglected is a power unlike any that has been exercised since the Pope lost his hold on the secular mind.Ben Bradlee (Washington Post editor of Watergate infamy) joins Lippmann in worshiping the false god of man.
JIM LEHRER: Ben Bradlee is one of America's most famous newspaper editors and he believes the practice of journalism is more than a job.Arthur Sulzberger Jr, publisher of the New York Times joins the unholy chorus.
BEN BRADLEE: I don't mean to sound arrogant, but we're in a holy profession.
I have the Times; that's my religion; that's what I believe in,
50 percent of journalists [say] they have no religion, and some 80 percent rarely ever [go] to church.
True enough, but it's also been my observation that Dims will throw any kind of money at anything that might result in maintaining or buying a few more votes; ESPECIALLY EXCLUSIVELY taxpayer money. They're not really into the tax paying thingy. Even then, it's not the votes per se they're after, it's of course the ultimate aphrodisiac of control freaks: power. Confiscating money from producers(conservatives) and GIVING it to their starry-eyed parasites is a one way ticket into the abyss. Dims are truly the lowest form of life on this planet.
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