What's a print media? Never heard of 'em...
Ordinarily,I would say yes, it is great to watch the print media die, but at the same time, I also notice that my country is dying with them. I wonder if the two deaths are related...
....I really hate the way newspapers have turned on America....it’s good they’re getting kicked in the teeth....next, let’s torpedo the Hollywood Left....then go after the Academy....if nobody signs up for Lefty professors’s classes they’ll go broke too.
What's killing them isn't the medium as much as it's the message. Look how blatently they were in the tank for Obama this election cycle. With bias that obvious, who wouldn't look elsewhere for their factual news?
“Ain’t it great to watch the print media die?
...until Obama bails them out.
No. I could wish the news business was at least balanced, or non-biased, but I really don't want to see the print media die.
Too bad we don't have any choices, though. I would gladly subscribe to a conservative newspaper if there was one available.
So die they will, and it serves them right for trying to steer policy by printing lies.
Better Red than Read; whoops, we’re Dead!
I miss the print media, the REAL print media. I like reading the paper. It’s so old-school now. I don’t like having to be hooked up to an electronic device to get my news. I miss sitting in my schleppy clothes, having some tea and reading the paper page-by-page. I can’t even remember the last time I was able to do it. It’s too big a health risk now.
“Ain’t it great to watch the print media die?”
Not at all.
For one thing, it’s a vital part of democracy.
For another, I never cheer when fellow citizens loose their jobs.
IF some brave, moral soul started publishing a fair and balanced newspaper, could it survive?
Maybe the liberal biggies should save their lives by trying “fair and balanced.” It might be their only salvation.
(Then, again...who cares?)
If the bailouts continue,
I guarantee the Democrat supporting media will be on the list.
The democrats would like nothing more than to have an actual (they already have de facto) controlling interest in all major media.
There was a time when the print media used to be dignified and truthful. Now they are just a bunch of rags so as for me and mine... “We are lovin’ every minute of it when we hear another one has gone south.”
All the MSM should die...
I was talking about this with some friends the other day. The internet has killed newspapers, but it's not because of biased reporting, or only incidentally because of that. It's because all those things you NEEDED a paper for you don't need it for anymore. Who looks up movie show times in the paper anymore? Weather? The latest sports scores? Stocks? All internet now. Major newspapers as we know them had a good run--120 years or so. But now their time has passed. Interestingly, blogs seem a fair analogy for what newspapers were before that period--idiosyncratic, partisan, etc.
When one of my friends objected to this analysis, I said, "Yeah, I still miss the town crier, too"
God forbid we experience a regional/national blackout...we would go primitive in less than 30 days.
They’ll shrink of course. But there will always be a New York Times...even if they move to a much small building. ;^)
And if the above happens, the newspaper will cost you 5 bucks a copy. If you can find one.