Craig$list.com ("taking millions from ... newspapers and causing layoffs")

SF Weekly ^ | Dec 1 05 | Ryan Blitstein

[churchillbuff]

Newmark now suffers from a moral dilemma: He feels guilty about helping cause job losses and poorer-quality papers, but he's excited to accelerate the decline of the big, bad mainstream media.""

[freedumb2003]

Bay Area papers alone forfeit at least $50 million annually to Craigslist, losses that contribute to layoffs of dozens of reporters. As fearful publishers cut newsroom jobs, inferior news coverage is the likely outcome.

BUAHAHAHAHAHA. This guy has a very overblown sense of self -- news reporting CAN'T get any worse.

"Journalists" today are hacks -- they can't use proper grammar, they invent news, they slant their stories (to the Left).

This is complaining about quill pens bein replaced by ballpoints!

[freedumb2003]

Now that I have had a chance to read the rest of the article, I have to say it is a perfect example of why newspapers are loosing advertising dollars.

Talk about purple prose! My gawd, you would think William Rivers Pitt or some 10th grader wrote this.

[Regulator]

Do I detect a whiff of self-righteous carping here from some Jurassic reporter types...nah, couldn't be. These are Bay Area reporters, the Progressive of the Progressives.

Why, they could never be against something new and more democratic then the Commie rags they all write fiction for....nooooo, not them, huh-uh, they're the Vanguard of the New Reality....at least they thought they were, until it kinda left their butts in the dust.

[rcocean]

HA!HA!HA!

[birbear]

Interesting that the article doesn't mention that ebay has purchased a stake of Craig's List (I forget the percentage).

I guess that's because we're stuck with having inadeuqate reporters.

I love Craig's List.

[weegee]

I suppose if people stopped housebreaking their puppies, there would be an even more significant drop in the demand for newspapers.

[weegee]

The San Jose Mercury News alone misses out on $12 million annually in employment ad revenue because of Craigslist, according to recent estimates by Lou Alexander, who retired as the paper's advertising operations director two years ago.

Of course it wouldn't be because of Monster.com or other webservices...

Of course losses in ad revenue wouldn't have anything to do with being caught publishing inflated circulation figures either (a nationwide scam).

[Arthalion]

Craig'sList can be useful and I've used it for years, but Craig Newmark is a raging communist who actively promotes left-wing political agendas. His site even has special lists of "progressive" resources online that he recommends, and is a regular meeting place for anarchists, communists, and socialists.

He also permits the selling of drugs on his site, and encourages prostitution to the point that CraigsList has special sections DEVOTED to allowing hookers and johns to find each other. I won't even get into the content of the gay sex discussion boards.

It's useful, but I'd think twice before claiming to "love" it.

[Lizavetta]

I wonder how many of the newspapers who decry the freeness and/or cheapness of Craigslist have written editorials extolling the benefits of illegal immigration and how its wage-suppressing effects result in so-called cheaper products.

I suppose Craig Newmark is just doing a job American newspapers just won't do.

[traviskicks]

he's excited to accelerate the decline of the big, bad mainstream media.
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burn baby burn!

[Lizavetta]

You're not kidding. I once went into the erotic forum and the first post was a photograph of some guy's privates. He was apparently looking for a hookup and thought he'd show what he's got. Ick.

[bfree]

The San Jose Mercury News alone misses out on $12 million annually in employment ad revenue because of Craigslist

Maybe Barbara Boxer can claim it's the paper's constitutional right to get the money. Only the left can think the above makes sense. The sense of entitlement, that is. Liberals whining is such a great read!! I love good news.

[Go_Raiders]

I have two Internet heroes - Newmark and Buckhead.

[abb]

First the story about the Chicago Tribune laying off people. Now this. Two good news stories in one day!!!

[gaijin]

but given the reliance of participatory government on newspapers, it may be no bargain at all for society

I understand the author's meaning totally: that government should STOP RELYING ON NEWSPAPERS at the earliest possible time.

I approve.

[RJL]

Fewer reporters often means lower-grade news coverage... "There may be as many stories, but fewer have depth and include investigation."

How much depth and investigation does it take to change a few words in the Democrat talking points before they publish it?

[Mad_as_heck]

Craig Newmark is a raging communist who actively promotes left-wing political agendas

Wow - a lefty attack on "the man" helps destroy the left-leaning mainstream media they use to undermine our nation. Works for me.

I love the smell of free market economics in the morning- its the smell of ... victory.

[birbear]

You've obviously have searched through it more extensively than I have.

I was just stoked because I got a date and some cool electronics gear off of it.