[ncountylee]

If Post journalists write every story, take every photo, compose every headline and design every page with readers in mind

The disgusting collection of self important elitists that you call journalists are incapable of connecting with the majority.

[LenS]

"Newspapers are part of the civic glue that holds communities together.'

In their dreams -- you can't tie together a city or region if half your audience, conservatives, stopped reading you years ago because of your contempt for and ignorance of them.

I will give the author credit for noting the impact of online ad sites such as Craigslist. It's doubtful that many of the "name" reporters have realized that yet.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Damn....imagine the humiliation of having to report on your own terminal disease

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.....makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

[papertyger]

Newspapers are part of the civic glue that holds communities together.

and tore American civilization apart.

[Torie]

We might be missing the fact that we feed off the news generated by all these boots. The cheering for the demise of newspapers is misplaced. They are the source. The rest of us, including TV, mostly just comment upon it, and repeat it.

[GOPJ]

Newspapers are part of the civic glue that holds communities together.

Sorry, they don't "hold" the conservative community together - and the classic liberal victim groups don't buy enough papers to keep the system going. Papers downplay information we need to make our lives better while endlessly trumpeting liberal BS. It's tiresome.

[Jeff Chandler]

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, hey, good bye. Shaudenfreude to the max.I remember telling Mrs. Chandler to kiss her poor, downtrodden former boyfriend goodbye. This is not unlike that.

[Lancey Howard]

John Lavine, dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, has done extensive newspaper readership research. "Newspapers have to change dramatically.... (snip).... The days of journalists telling readers what matters are over."

That's a pretty rare admission from the dean of a journalism school.

There's one big intangible in all this: a paper's connection with its readers. Readers who feel respected and who love their newspaper don't depart easily. If Post journalists write every story, take every photo, compose every headline and design every page with readers in mind, and the newspaper is printed well and delivered on time, The Post will be fine.

That sounds bright and upbeat and everything, but as long as newspapers like the Washington Post continue to push their Democrat Party's agenda of turning America into a Euro-style, secular-socialist welfare state, many readers will NOT "feel respected" and they WILL continue to depart, no matter how fancy everything looks.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

the nation's second-largest newspaper chain, with 32 papers. McClatchy Co. announced Monday it would buy Knight Ridder, but said it would sell 12 of the 32 newspapers -- the ones not making enough money and not in growth markets.

any guesses as to which ones?

[AmericaUnited]

The turnover in newspaper ownership has been staggering to cities that wake up to find their newspaper sold and to employees who thought their jobs were safe.

Oh please!!! As if newspapers were the major employers in these cities.

[SkyPilot]

Newspapers are part of the civic glue that holds communities together.

HA!

Yup - sure they are.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Watergate accelerated an unhealthy trend in journalism. It began to attract over "educated" [read: overly indoctrinated] young people on messianic ego trips. They are too consumed with missionary zeal and an uncomprehending celebrity worship of the left (not stopping at Clinton, but extending as far as Castro, and beyond).

They are burdened with the resentful upper crust's contempt and dread of their own society, and misapprehend it the way only missionaries or would-be colonial masters can.

Consider Mary Mapes: by all evidence a person totally consumed by delusions of adequacy. Only in the bizarre world of high stakes journalism could a person so immune to facts survive even as long as she did. Ever since the regrettable Supreme Court decision in Sullivan v. New York Times American journalism has become increasingly divorced from the concept of consequences for proffering falsehoods. Why should Mary Mapes think anything would come of embracing an obvious and crude fabrication? Like Professor Harold Hill, she has come to believe that whatever she wants to believe is true, that wishing it to be so will make it so.

There are far more charlatans like Mary Mapes in America's newsrooms than the cynical hardboiled curmudgeons of the 1930's film noir variety. And these self declared cynics are in fact naifs, believing every and any far fetched concoction if it fits their preconceived notions. American journalism needs a new birth. It is not the technology that is destroying American newspapers, it is the practitioners.

[R.W.Ratikal]

And yet newspapers still fail to understand why they are going down the tube. It's CONTENT stupid! Chain dailies are suffering from the same leftist disease that is killing network TV, who don't get it either. For example, Katy Couric is moving from the "Today" show, which no one watches, to CBS News that no one watches.

The leftist bias in most newspapers has driven away readers. Technology has helped thin the ranks of readers. The internet, cable news, and conservative talk radio have all played a part in giving the other side, a side that was hidden for so long by the so-called mainstream media.

The mainstream is no longer the mainstream but a trickle, and it is running dry.

While papers on the far left are dying, conservative newspapers are doing very well and making a profit. What would this tell you if you were an editor or publisher?

[mo]

I would suspect that who, what ,why, where and how mean nothing to the average Ivy League "educated" agenda driven word parrot......

[TXBSAFH]

This is how much teh Houston Chrnicle is design witht eh community in mind. The management and editorial staff was brought over from Sin Freakisco. They routinely insult our values.

[Eagles Talon IV]

"The New York Times, located in the world's financial center, announced on Tuesday that it will stop publishing daily stock listings. Advertising..."

At least until something causes the markets to go into a prolonged tailspin. When that happens the latest stock quotes will be an page A1, above the fold and on the right.

[Bernard]

Gee, just before I came to this web-site and read this story, I read 3 local newspapers on-line; in about 20 minutes. All the editorials, the letters to the editors, the local news, an advice to the love-lorn column, what local groups are running a car wash to raise money, and some commentary. And with no ink on my fingers to wash off.

It's been a dream of mine for a while now to run a local newspaper that does not involve newspaper - just a web-site and an email newsletter. I guess when the next economic adjustment comes along and I have some time on my hands, I can get it started.

[bray]

Pravda has been doing pretty well since they began reporting the Truth. Perhaps the Stone Age Press should take notes?

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[CIB-173RDABN]

If those that currently run newspapers would have rented Clark Gable's TEACHER'S PET rather then go to Journalism School, they would learn just what a newspaper is.

I will give them a hint, it is not to tie the community together.

[prairiebreeze]

The very last line:

If Post journalists write every story, take every photo, compose every headline and design every page with readers in mind, and the newspaper is printed well and delivered on time, The Post will be fine.

(melodically)
If you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are...

(another melody)
All we need is a miracle....

(and straight from DU...)
I BELIEEEEEEVE...!!

fofl!