"By raising prices and lowering quality, a stagnant business can rely on its most loyal customers to continue to buy the product, allowing it to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze its customers as they croak. 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."
Hoping my local rag dies. On the day of inauguration, it ran a huge story, on the front page and on 2-3 other pages, about the obama legacy and how much we would miss him.
I hope they lose money and go bankrupt.
Somehow missing from the article is the fact that the Denver Post is full liberal - ignoring very obvious corruption in the city, looking the other way while the corrupt and inept city council promotes sanctuary and votes to allow folks to take bodacious Obamas in the streets. They play down the fact that the police union voted “no confidence” in the corrupt black police chief appointed by the more corrupt black mayor.
The paper is a joke, and the “reporters” deserve what they have and will get.
The Orange County Register was a good paper before Randall Smith took over. Now it’s gotten much more liberal as well as having fewer pages and costing more. It’s also harder to find in newsracks.
I hope newspapers find a way to survive. I don’t want to have to read everything on screens. I can only read screens for so long before my eyes start to hurt.
Yo, Denver Post, want to increase your readership? Print your paper on Zig-Zags.
The Rocky Mountain News was acquired By the Denver Post and now both will bite the dust.
This isn’t how a newspaper dies, it is how we don’t care for liberal propaganda and liberalism ides.
Heck, not even liberals want to read that tripe.
The answer to those attacking Smith is simple. Start up your own newspapers, with all the reporters and “quality” you wish to invest into them, and make gigantic profits and save the industry. Show him how it’s done.
I learned recently that Boston’s conservative paper, the Boston Herald, filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, and was sold in a bankruptcy sale.
But it’s still being published by the new owner, and Howie Carr is still writing his column.
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.
Never cared for the Denver Post when I lived in Denver - I liked the Rocky Mountain News.
Want a good and profitable newspaper? Print news! That's what “reporters” and their hard nosed editors did.
Want to kill your newspaper? Print opinion purporting to be news. That's what “journalists” do. They've been killing newspapers since the late 1960’s.
Format is not the problem. School of “journalism” graduates is the problem.
If the papers disappear what will I line my birdcage with? How will I keep oil drips off the garage floor?
Ping to you, sir.
Just the fact we’re talking about this on the Free Republic web site explains why newspapers are dying: they can’t keep up with the news cycle. And has gotten worse with the rise of social media on cellphones.
“”By raising prices and lowering quality, a stagnant business can rely on its most loyal customers to continue to buy the product, allowing it to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze its customers as they croak. 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.”
Sounds like what Comcast,AT&T other cable providers and satellite providers of Television have been doing for years.
Lowering the quality, pushing liberal stuff and raising their monthly bills.
People with a half of a functioning brain have been cutting their tv cable or satellite service at an increasing rate for over a year.
Newspapers, cable and/or satellite tv service are worthless in today’s world and an expensive bad habit feeding the Deep State which controls our media.
The anti-conservative bias of the dailies hasn’t helped them retain subscribers, but the main reason for their demise is the loss of advertising revenue because of competition from the Internet. Plus, many of them had bloated staffs, and the fact that they can still put out a (slimmed-down) product with a much smaller work force shows just how bloated they were.
not to mention that the dying Denver Post is little more than yet another outlet for the leftist fake stream media anti-Trump propaganda, filled with lying garbage from AP, McClatchy, WaPoo, and NYslimes, containing close to zero local news, and chock-a-block with big colorful ads for pot stores ...