How soon will it be that is more profitable to recycle the paper than try to sell it?
And moveon.org is trying to prop them up. If moveon suggests a boycott, I recommend that we *gasp* work alongside them.
Weak ad sales are the problem, according to them. Uh, ad sales in general are up as the economy continues to hum merrily along. So their declining ad sales are due to the fact nobody really reads the multitude of fishwraps they publish, because they refuse to print the truth about Iraq, the President, and the economy. No advertiser wants to put money (ads) into a paper that has diminishing returns, ie, readership. Somehow I don't think the Tribune will make that little connection, though.
They have been showing a few signs of trying to temper their far-left madness, but I don't know how much that will help. It's not clear from this article, which only mentions classified automobile ads, but it could be that they are suffering from the same classified ad problem across the board as Knight Ridder.
In other words, the internet is eating their lunch. People aren't advertising in newspapers as much any more, when it's so much easier and more effective to do it on-line.
How many times have they called? How many times have I said NO? Many. Well, I say more than NO. I go into a rant and tell them that I will subscribe when they use the term illegal alien, when the call Democrats unpatriotic, when they acknowledge that Bill really did rape Juanita Broaddrick, and when they call Hillary Clinton the greatest danger to this nation next to al Qaeda itself. Sometimes then hang up before I finish.
200 is just a good start. May they all be in soup lines
Do ya think they've realized yet that insulting your customers on a daily basis was a bad business plan? No? I don't either.
If they printed news instead of fiction, they might have a fighting chance. As it is... they're a waste of good trees that would otherwise be converting carbon dioxide to oxygen.
Gee, does that mean all those folks are going to have to go out and WORK for a living?! What a way to swell those republican ranks.
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How long before Babs (Barbra Streisand) buys hereself a newspaper? She is so upset with the way The Times is being run these days and she is so desperate to sway public opinion to her deluded way of thinking, it seems a natural turn of events.
If the times were to fold and all the liberal writers and editors got released would anyone really care?
Hell I 'd think it would be a good thing.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving Lame Stream Media Loser!
BUH-BYE, Liberal Rag!