Posted on 08/18/2018 7:52:17 AM PDT by Zakeet
For those of us who still love getting our news from newspapers, those inky, crinkly, thin sheets of wood pulp you hold in your hands and read, these indeed are sad times. Print newspapers, thanks in large part to the meteoric rise of smartphones and online and social media, are in serious decline.
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Many media analysts believe it won’t be long before print newspapers disappear. If it happens, they in large part will be devoured by a voracious horde of online and social media, many of which have little respect for the notion that the first function of news reporting is to present good, honest, factual and relevant information about the community it serves.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Us idiot Newsers are so clueless that we pull crap like this ...
About 350 newspapers in the United States will have editorials Thursday decrying President Donald Trump's description of the media as the "enemy of the people."
... and then we wonder why we are going out of business ...
It can’t happen soon enough.
After a while I realized I was reading stories I had heard about two weeks earlier on the Rush Limbaugh Show. Once the Internet came along, I was reading stories online I would hear about the next day on Rush and two weeks later in the papers.
Then came that Easter morning when the East Valley Tribune (Phoenix rag) failed to mention Easter (unlike the saturation coverage of Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, etc.) I called to cancel my subscription the next day.
Suicide by ink...
Save the trees!
I have come to love ebooks - just swipe and go!
No one will miss the late, dead liberal print media.
If they stuck with just local and state news, crime, obituaries, and want-ad’s....then they’d survive. The problem I see is that they want the same status that they had in the century prior to 1980. I don’t read editorials, and I won’t listen to them preach on election-type topics. My belief is that half of the 350 newspapers in question....will be ‘let-go’ by 2030. Those won’t survive.
The author is a bit late to the party. The hateful lying fake msm has had no “respect for the notion that the first function of news reporting is to present good, honest, factual and relevant information about the community it serves” for years.
Print media will disappear because they bring no value that the marketplace can perceive. Readers don’t want to read the guff they’re pushing and advertisers don’t want to buy ads that no eyebalss will see.
Thanks Zakeet. I guess the writer doesn't realize that it is literally impossible for me to read them even less than I do now. It has to do with them, and their biases and behavior, and nothing to do with our President.
My local paper is so far left, a DNC newsletter would be more moderate.
>>Many media analysts believe it won’t be long before print newspapers disappear. If it happens, they in large part will be devoured by a voracious horde of online and social media, many of which have little respect for the notion that the first function of news reporting is to present good, honest, factual and relevant information about the community it serves.
Print rags have been hackwork since before the days of Watergate and that’s not even including the left wing dope and sex ads alternative press which has also been collapsing (largely from MeToo harassment scandals and backpage human trafficking of minors).
Eyebalss -> eyeballs
Why don’t local papers report local news?
national syndicate sure aren’t going to and the locals all pull their content from the wires these days.
My wife still likes to read our local paper. I limit myself to the comics and the sudoku puzzle. However, I’d miss it if it went out of business. Three or four sheets in a chimney charcoal lighter can’t be beat for getting the grill ready.
There is a cost factor because in a town of 40,000....you’d have to have at least twenty reporters to do a decent job on local events, crime, corruption, etc.
When I went back last year to the old home-town, I picked up the local newspaper. One page reserved for state and local news....that was it. Crime blotter did take up a half-page, but it was stuff that the cops gave over, and the paper just ‘cut and paste’ the story into the paper.
Most papers are fish wraps, democrat rags.
Print media competed with the Internet and they lost. Along the way the journalism profession decided to join a side and advance a political agenda. “Make a Difference” is what they called it. This will fail as well. A news profession that only presents one side of any argument cannot survive except at the point of a bayonet. People are very interested in knowing what is going on in the world, that interest existed in the days of sailing ships when information took weeks and months to cross oceans. The free press thrived. Now, it and it’s profession is dead. Something else will replace it, but it will not be a propaganda freak show interlaced with ads disguised as news.
“Three or four sheets in a chimney charcoal lighter can’t be beat for getting the grill ready.”
I make fire starters, too. I think our local ‘Shopper Stopper’ will still provide me with newspaper to use. ;) The only reason I used to buy a state newspaper was on Wed. and Sun. for the grocery coupons.
For the uninitiated:
https://www.marthastewart.com/306916/twisted-newspaper-fire-starter
Print newspapers disappear - women and minorities hardest hit
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