[mlocher]

The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., will reduce its newsroom staff by nearly half through voluntary buyouts as New Jersey's largest newspaper seeks to return to profitability.

Even the Messiah will not be able to make the Star-Ledger profitable. (without a bailout that is)

[right wing]

Picture yourself in your 50s in a job [editor]where you’ve spent 30 years working your way to the top, to the cockpit of power . . . only to discover that you’re presiding over a dying industry.

Still refusing to acknowledge the REASON they are a dying industry! HELLLLLOOOOO - THE LITTLE PEOPLE DON'T LIKE YOUR SLANTED NEWS!

[mlocher]

And then the opportunity presents itself: an attractive young candidate whose politics likely matches yours, but more important, he offers the prospect of a transformed Washington with the power to fix everything that has gone wrong in your career. With luck, this monolithic, single-party government will crush the alternative media via a revived Fairness Doctrine, re-invigorate unions by getting rid of secret votes, and just maybe, be beholden to people like you in the traditional media for getting it there.

So, Obama gets MSM support for self interest. Interesting theory. Personally, MSM is on its death bed because the truth is irrelevant.

[hinckley buzzard]

you’ve spent 30 years working your way to the top, to the cockpit of power . . . Your job doesn’t have anywhere near the power and influence it did when your started your climb

Reveals what "journalism" is really all about and, incidentally, why it has been dead at least since 1992.

[Bernard]

you’re presiding over a dying industry

The industry isn't dying, just the pacakaging. There is still a market for information, advertising, meeting places, gossip, etc. The only thing that has changed is that the barrier to entry into the industry has been lowered, so all that overhead is a waste of money.

Not to mention the damage to the environment, with all the trees being cut down and the ink being used. I'm surprised Al Gore hasn't gone after these people.

[wintertime]

only to discover that you’re presiding over a dying industry.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Unfortunately it is not dying fast enough. We may lose our freedom before the MSM takes its last gasp.

[screaminsunshine]

Hard to make a profit when you can only sell your propaganda to the liberal choir.

[blueheron2]

MSM in denial. I subscribed to the Courier Journal for twenty years. Canceled during the Clinton years when it became obvious they were just liberal shills. Gannett sucks.

[6SJ7]

Here's the link to the original article referenced. Interesting read on the journalistic "profession".

[Carley]

A couple of years ago I ordered a subscription to the Ledger.

As a gift for subscribing they sent me a visa card worth more than the subscription.

This is a familiar scam. It reports X number of readers to their advertisers. Never mind they paid ME to get the paper.

[longtermmemmory]

Four Years of College for Journalism Degree $50,000 in student loans.
Master’s Degree $12,000

-all non-dischargable student loans

Having your Journalism degrees show to be useless when a person sitting at home comfortably in a leather office chair in silk pajamas sipping a warm coffee scoops your story and exposes your relied of fakes,,,,

PRICELESS.

[joma89]

Only by 1/2? I was hoping for a “Going out of business” sale.

JoMa

[stevem]

In other words, you are facing career catastrophe -and desperate times call for desperate measures...Even if you have to compromise the principles that got you here.

I have worked in a couple of industries that go through, sometimes, long cycles. I have watched a couple of serious contractions. I was picked off during one of them.

I recall asking people, if we are all doomed anyway, wouldn't it be better to go out trying something different? The problem was, so many puppeteers learned their trades using only one set of sales parameters. So many could not fathom another kind of product or another way to deliver the product.

We have had this discussion on FR, and perhaps the naysayers are right. Perhaps there is no way to package news successsfully in print and traditional broadcast.

Still, if I were a news manager, a true manager, I think I would try something diffferent. Not to single them out, but to take just one example, the NYT has an odd philosophy. The largets market that can possibly be interested in the NYT slant is the market of people who can't read. That makes no sense.

[autumnraine]

My heart bleeds for the people who sing the praises and shill for politicians who send jobs overseas so that folks in our area who spent 30 years working somewhere can wake up at 50 and try to figure out how to start a new career.

[Defiant]

Can't happen soon enough. In the future, all news will be internet based, and aggregators will be in charge of presenting it. Reporters will be free agents, stringers, who sell their stories one at a time. Michael Yon and great reporters will make decent money. The left wing biased reporters won't be in demand, and won't get paid. New reporters, good, solid ones who report actual news, will replace them.

Unless Obama wins, because then state propaganda will replace MSM propaganda.