Posted on 09/13/2009 4:03:30 PM PDT by GeronL
I do not lament the death of big media in this country, in fact I applaud it. It is not only technology that is hastening the downfall of the newspaper or the big television networks, it is their ideology. The business model of the newspaper does not work anymore, news is more efficiently delivered online-even if its paid for.
The New York Times could save a bundle of money by giving all of its subscribers a free Kindle and stop printing the paper edition. Think about that. What if your big local paper announced it would give you a Kindle or a Netbook for your subscription dollars. Newspaper companies don't even want to consider this right now, but it makes sense.
Then there is their ideological bias. The newspapers in this country, especially the largest ones, have become so leftist that they are downright socialist in outlook. The recent Thomas Friedman column is an example of that rampant tyranny gene growing.
Of course if you get a Kindle or Netbook from your local big daily who is to say you wouldn't also get e-editions of the National Review or the Washington Times? You can bet that when millions and millions of people start paying for news to get these devices that conservative and libertarian alternatives will be offered.
Even satellite and cable television networks are finding that the internet is part of their competition. Google and Youtube are going to start selling movie downloads, something Netflix already does. Who is to say that pro-freedom media groups won't form to offer online television "channels"?
Broadcast is becoming widecast. Soon you will have dozens or hundreds or thousands of online viewing options. Some of them will be big studio productions and some of them will be home-made. They will have about as level a playing field as anyone can imagine.
Imagine a day when the biggest news scandals are ignored by the "mainstream" media but everyone knows about it. Those who still depend on the old media for news were scratching their heads last week when Van Jones resigned amid "weeks" of scandal. New York Times readers found out about it 3 days later.
I think we should all be looking forward to the day when conservative and libertarian internet TV channels reach millions of viewers.
die networks die
My local the Tampa Tribune has turned in to a little rag not worth fooling with and raised the price from a quarter to a buck.
It does make sense. And no, they won't do it until it's almost too late. But it's the only way for them to make money and still control their medium...
QUICK, Washington step in and save them before it's too late for a good thing!
Only the names die to protect the guilty.
But they won’t “control” it. If people get their news on a Kindle or Netbook they will likely do other things with those things too. Maybe even subscribe to conservative or libertarian stuff.
I can imagine a Free Republic Daily Digest being put together or a Libertarian Daily News or even daily downloads from Townhall and Jewish World Review. They’re probably already available but I think this is going to become much more widespread.
I especially think we need to focus on setting up online TV services.
Didn’t some non-profit take over one of the papers down there?
We're already there! /lol
I was being sarcastic
Don't look to me for sympathy, I hope every leftist daily in the country goes the way of the telegraph and vaudeville.
It would be easy for a newspaper to design a private system - and profitable. The use of one computer for everything made sense when memory was so gawd awful expensive - but the future will have many “computers” in the home - disguised as other things - one could be a newspaper.
Dunno. But the Trib sucks now.
What really disconcerting about this is that the communist or marxist, whoever, have succeeded in placing their people in positions of power, media, schools, unions... while we were busy working and taking care of our families. We could never imagine the Communist were really taking over, slowing, but surely. Now people need to be educated as to how to deal with them AND show the useful idiots who follow them, that millions end up in political prison, all, but the elite’s lose most of there property and and millions die. Everyone should re-read Animal Farm.
I know ... so was I ...
I predict a big demand for newsprint (the PAPER) by people who need it to line their litter boxes and bird cages
I am getting a little worried about the lack of fishwrap once they go under
The media has lost their credibility. It’s their own fault.
They cannot turn this back.
I've often said, for a long time, that the *only* asset of a news organization is their credibility ... once that credibility is lost, they have NO assets left. Period.
The Marxists who control the government K-12 schools are working hard to make such the children who attend won't be able to read it.
Those who do manage to learn how to read, and go on to university, are subjected to another 4 years of Marxist indoctrination.
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