Posted on 01/24/2019 8:04:39 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
I believe she has a degree in economics. And bartending.
Good. I would love to read a daily paper, but not when it makes me want to rip it to shreds. May they all go out of business.
I can remember at the height of the paper news industry, there were at least three editions of the local rag in my large city. People looked expectantly for it: “Can you go out and see if the paper has arrived yet?”
I don’t remember it, but I was told that home mail delivery happened 2 or 3 times per day as well in most urban areas.
I would say it’s a shame that this industry is going down the tubes, but considering that they are largely now purveyors of lies, I won’t.
Tears of joy!!!
Schadenfreude!!!
You need an IQ of at least 51 to qualify as a moron. I think 26-50 only puts her in the imbecile range.
I carried the afternoon paper six days a week. 28 dailies. 125 Sundays.
Good thing my dad had a station wagon to help me...
Makes you wonder just how much taxpayer money has gone to propping up the MSM.
You can call that investing in the newspaper business if you like. ;)
Good. Now let the urinalists go get a real job.
Steve Benson was a daily cartoonist for the AZ ever since I moved to Phoenix in 1990 and the AZ Republic just laid him off.
AZ Republic must be doing badly.
Our local paper that's been around since 1892 has gone from a 7 day print edition to five days ... Monday & Tuesday edition on line. This, according to the paper, to offset costs and avoid lay offs. Although the area they serve is one of the more conservative counties in Colorado (western Colorado) they insist on pushing forward their liberal agenda on a daily basis. The editorial page features writers from the NY Times & Washington Post writers group ... almost all bashing Trump and conservatives in general. Not to mention the almost daily Trump bashing letter-to-the-editor along with a Trump bashing editorial cartoon. This paper, not Gannet owned, is not attuned to the area they serve ... and in my estimation will continue to struggle ... and probably won't exist in 10 years.
Mostly they brought this on themselves. Work overtime to make 1/2 your potential customers hate you and you might just find yourself working no hours at all.
Quotation marks matter.
Makes one wonder why universities still have bloated Journalism departments. You don’t need a college degree to be unemployed.
Good news.
wheres that Boo Hoo girl...
The news business is undergoing a major change and newspapers more so than anything else. In the midst of this cultural and technological change, journalists decided that people would be willing to pay to have journalists lie to us. It turns out that we aren’t that stupid. Newspaper subscriptions have dropped by millions. Big city newspapers and USA today have become jokes. I won’t even read them in the doctor’s office.
It’s not over. TV media will be the next to see the bubble burst and the powerhouse online media aren’t far behind. As long as they continue to be the willing lackeys of the communist dominated Democrat Party and the inside the Beltway elitists, they are doomed. They have become the news and the news is good: they will be gone sooner than either they or we realize.
It could only be for the underlying real estate value. When Bezos bought the Washington Post he paid $250M. But that included other properties (TV and radio stations, etc.) I saw analysts reports that suggested, after removing the value of those other properties, he paid close to $0 for the newspaper operations. That makes sense. The only buyers for newspapers today are either investors seeing value in other (non-print) assets, or uber-billionaires who want a megaphone to play with. Otherwise, it’s a dead industry.
Hi sit-rep. Long time no read. Did you used to post to the Yahoo board at Titan Industries years ago? They irradiated beef to prevent E coli.
excellent observations.
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