The disgusting collection of self important elitists that you call journalists are incapable of connecting with the majority.
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.
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.....makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
and tore American civilization apart.
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.
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.
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.
any guesses as to which ones?
Oh please!!! As if newspapers were the major employers in these cities.
HA!
Yup - sure they are.
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.
I would suspect that who, what ,why, where and how mean nothing to the average Ivy League "educated" agenda driven word parrot......
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!