Posted on 05/20/2018 6:49:45 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
“I just love these uplifting stories, this one makes my day. Watching journalists self destruct before our very eyes bring warmth and joy and is well deserved.
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just not happening fast enough for my taste ... i don’t have that many years left on the planet ...
“I’ll buy one rarely just to have fire starter available for my grill.”
around here in the Denver Metro area you can occasionally snag free newpapers at the temporary sales stands they sometimes set up in some of the grocery stores ...
Perhaps the News will rise again.
It must have been some of the people that worked for the news going to the post that confused me. My mind is not what it used to be.
Last time I saw one, the entire paper was a whopping two sections of the narrow European paper size. Nether section had more than 16 or so pages.
This was including the classified ads.
Soon it won't even qualify to be fish wrap.
Guppy wrap, maybe...
No amount of hand wringing, blame slinging, political hay making, bargaining, crying, screaming, begging, reorganization, name changing, or obfuscation will help at all when your business model is obsolete and no longer viable.
Goodbye papers.
Electronic ink devices have been available since 2004.
It isn’t as if there were no viable choice.
The spouse has to absolutely have the Sunday edition of The (daily worker) State paper delivered.
Another copy still shows up at the house we moved from and are getting ready to put on the market soon.
I chuck it in the trash.
The daily worker has been told before not to deliver there.
Smith has a pair! What he’s done would be like investing in Mickey Mantle in 1967.
Oil dry at any parts house works nicely for oil leaks.
That was the name of the LAFB newsletter.
Colorado can always convert to rolling papers.
The RMN was a good paper while it lasted. Many of the stories were wire copy, yes, but the columnists were mostly conservative and it was nice to sit in a cozy chair on a winter morning and read the columns and the sports pages along with the occasional local story of interest. They used the “tabloid” style of layout (like reading a large book) which made it easier to hold for long stretches instead of the normal widespread newspaper layout.
I never took the Denver Post seriously since around 1970 when they declared all pistols costing less than $45.00 (1970 dollars)to be SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIALS. The firearm shown was a Ruger Mk II semi auto.
Omaha World Herald has been “downsized” in both content and size. Looking more like small town rag. There have been rumors of future layoffs.
Because Denver's not a national capital.
It's not quite a regional (multi-state) capital either.
So the audience and influence of a Denver paper is bound to be limited.
Newspapers are dying anyway, but a billionaire who wants influence in the country and the world might still be found to buy a New York or Washington DC paper.
That's a lot less likely to happen in other cities.
This slow liquidation of an asset’s value, destroying even its reputation in the process, kills the product. Wherever newspapers can be found reducing page size, cutting news pages, narrowing coverage area, reducing staff, shrinking circulation area, postponing the purchase of new equipment and raising subscription prices, they are harvesting market position.
Isn't the product dying anyway? Aren't newspapers, if they survive, likely to get smaller and thinner, whatever publishers do?
Silly me! What was I thinking ;-)
My wife loves getting the local paper, so we get it. They reduced the size of the paper (width) but it was fairly subtle. Then they stopped publishing a Saturday edition, changed their mind and now do a ‘Sunday’ paper on Saturday. Fewer pages, of course. At least it hasn’t gone liberal.
Thing is, 100 years ago, owning a newspaper typically made one rich. Now owning a newspaper is akin to owning a camera store.
I call El Estado the daily worker because it annoys the people who blindly believe the rag.
I'm a grandfather and I won't buy any MSM crap at any price. Don't watch the news or listen to the radio. Journalists have slit their own entitled, narcissistic, manipulative throats.
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