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These newspapers would be profitable if they printed stories fit for human beings to read.
Seriously? (I should point out, this is Philadelphia) you have RAMPANT corruption in this city! You don't need to “dig” for it, it's right out in the open! If you ever read about it in the papers, it's because one of the corrupted is bragging about it!
Why would I buy a newspaper? It's inferior in every single way to the internet.
“News organizations are doing a crummy job of capitalizing on online advertising’s growth”
Well, of course they’re dong a crummy job. Newspapers don’t know how to compete in the ad marketplace because they never had to compete before because they always had a local marketplace monopoly on ads. Until the Internet came along that is and destroyed those monopolies as well as destroying the local ad marketplaces themselves to boot.
Even if they could compete, newspapers are twelve years too late to the Internet party, and all the good Internet real estate has already been staked out, you know, sites like craigslist, ebay and amazon.
Add this to the fact that, as they’ve downsized the staff assigned to their traditional products, most newspapers have tried to assign these staff to their attempted digital products. So now you have pressmen, layout techs, copy techs and display ad salesfolk trying design websites and sell ads for the their digital products. About like trying to get blacksmiths to repair diesel engines. And the result shows. Newspaper web site as a group or some of the worse sites to navigate on the Internet. Talk about trying to pound square pegs into round holes.
Indeed, just like the original dinosaurs, newspapers are doomed because they are unable to adapt to their rapidly changing environment. And quite frankly, it couldn’t have happened to a better lot (the newspapers I mean, not the actual dinosaurs), as newspapers have exercised an abusive monopoly on the ad marketplace for far too long, not to mention their subversive history of trying to destroy the United States via the promotion of Communism, Marxism, Progressiveism and Obammunism.
Newspapers could double or triple their readership and profitability if they would do one thing and that is to report honestly about the POS currently occupying the White House, expose it all and help get rid of him.
Liberals run newspapers the same way they run governments — with the philosophy that if a policy doesn’t work, keep doing it.
For example, the New York Times strongly supported Obama’s $878-billion stimulus program. The fact that it’s been an abject failure hasn’t stopped them from continuing to advocate for more stimulus. In the same way, the NYT’s policy of charging for Internet access has been a failure, since the company’s revenues have continued to plunge since its inception. Yet will the NYT end its revenue-destroying experiment and allow free access to its site so its readership will increase, thereby providing millions more potential customers for its advertisers who will be willing to pay higher advertising rates?
Of course not. Rather than admit it was wrong, the NYT would rather go out of business — after which it will be able to loftily blame the Internet for the failure of newspaper journalism, instead of blaming its own foolish policies for not using the Internet as advantageously as it could have so it could have stayed in business.