The old saw about picking a fight with someone who buys ink by the tanker-load is gone.
The new material is electrons and EVERYBODY has them...even blog-pimps [spit!].
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
Digital First Media, a hedge fund subsidiary known for gutting newspapers, is seeking a hostile takeover of money-losing Gannett and its properties
gonna be a lot more “journalists” being laid off ... gonna be a lot more angels getting their wings ...
It was a time when you could believe what you read.Best job I ever had, to get me physically ready and mentally alert, to take on the world. The reward? Ten dollars a week, untaxed.
If they would stop lying and tell the truth about the democrats they would still be in business.