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With all those cancellations, they have to keep circulation numbers up somehow.

Yeah, but it only works in the short run -- or in their dreams.

"Former ABC News reporter/anchor Sam Donaldson is ready to say the last rites for network news because it will soon lose its dominant position as Americans' primary source of news. 'I think it's dead. Sorry,' he said during a breakfast panel Tuesday at the National Association of Broadcasters' convention in Las Vegas." -- Bill McConnell, Broadcasting & Cable, 4/19/2005
"Print is dead... Get over it."-- John Squires, President, Sports Illustrated, Nov. 2004 quoted in the New York Times 2-20-2005
"...the notion of a neutral, non-partisan mainstream press was, to me at least, worth holding onto.
Now it's pretty much dead, at least as the public sees things." -- Howard Fineman, MSNBC, 1-11-05
"...the mainstream media's monopoly on information is over." -- Peggy Noonan, WSJ, Jan. 13, 2005
"Sept. 9, 2004, will be remembered as a paradigm-shifting day in media history. That was the day the 'blogosphere' took down CBS News" -- James Pinkerton, Newsday, Sept. 14, 2004
"The New York Times’ account of the [CNN chief] Eason Jordan resignation provides a general recap of the story they didn’t cover, along with a good dose of excuses and justifications ..." -- Lorie Byrd, Polipundit, 2-12-2005
"The New York Times, CBS and the BBC all had to fire lead personnel over the fact that they just damn well made stuff up out of whole cloth in service to an obviously partisan political agenda."-- New Sisyphus, 3-15-05
"The media can now wistfully reflect on their glory days of the 1970's when the majority of people actually bought into their bullshit."-- Laura K. Van Onymous