Posted on 12/03/2004 10:54:29 PM PST by churchillbuff
In any business, if you're not growing your dying. Good riddance.
Because they lie on the front page, they lie in the editorials, they lie in the board-room, they lie to the accountants, and they lie to themselves.
Looks like truth and reality caught up with the liberal liars.
/john
Well, I already don't subscribe to any of them, but if there's anything I can do to help make their plight even more desperate, please let me know...
To the enviro-wackers, dump that nuzpaper and save a tree!
Good summation.
During our recent financial hardships, subscriptions to papers and magazines were among the first things to go- and while I found myself missing the ritual of fetching the morning & evening papers, I got much more diverse news from the web and talk radio.
I found that when I would read a paper at a relative's house, I was struck by how narrow and dogmatic they seemed to have become-- they all take one of about five stories being peddled by the New York Times, the LA Times, or the Washington Post, and run it into the ground with repetition.
Yes, but they are doing very well on diversity in the newsroom, especially diversity in race and in sexual orientation.
Now I know why... I get a free copy of Wall Street, and other papers at my hotel and airlines.....
I get local info online with pics and national and international news.... online. So do my kids. The free newspaper that their classrooms get are the only ones they've seen. Otherwise it seems like a big "Greensheet" with advertising pamphlets and coupons mixed with photo copies of the stuff they saw online.
good-bye New York times.... soon all it will be is a real estate guide and crossword puzzle collection. You can get that for free and the Chamber of Commerce.
I still purchase the Detroit News almost daily, but more and more I ask myself why I do so. I suppose out of a sense of loyalty since I was a News carrier in the early 60s. It is no longer the same paper. It prints a lot of AP and LA Times articles, editorially tilts to the left on almost every issue. Lots more good stuff available on the Web, talk radio, and Fox. I don't watch the local TV news anymore because its usually about the latest fire in Detroit where all the people died because they had anti-felon bars on the windows and couldn't get out in time.
You can equate this to the horse and buggy being replaced by the auto. You deliver a paper once a day. TV delivers it every half hour and the internet delivers it every minute. Papers are dead, we gave up all ours a year ago and other than ads which I didn't need anyway I haven't missed anything.
The key for info providers is to find a way to make a buck delivering the product.
Are all print media experiencing a similar downturn? I heard some yahoo on Laura Ingraham imply that sales of books and magazines were also down, but it was an implication. Anyone have any stats?
Speaking of LI, she is asking for ideas of LI merchandise. I vote for the Laura Ingrahammer, but that's already been done.
I am actually shocked that most newspapers onine are still free.
SAVE THEM TREES! Stop buying the news printed on paper!
If Halliburton had perpetrated this type of fraud these newspapers would be screaming for Dick Cheney's resignation, not attempting to minimize the problem.
I remember in San Antonio a number of years ago, the city lost their second paper. The remaining paper promptly increased (doubled I think?) the cost of ads.
The auto dealers, being among the hardest hit, tried to fight this by producing a mail-out rather than use the paper but they finally gave in.
Advertising accounts for a lot of their revenue. And they know that people aren't going to pay for a service like that when they can get the information elsewhere.
A lot of sites will cut it up too. Some of the articles you have to sign up for in order to get access. It's pretty smart actually I think.
Used to love reading the Sunday paper with a cup of coffee. Now it's Fox News Sunday and FreeRepublic.
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