Nobody Killed The Newspaper

The Independent Institute ^ | 9-1-06 | Alvaro Vargas Llosa

[Dilbert San Diego]

Nobody Killed The Newspaper September 1, 2006 Alvaro Vargas Llosa

WASHINGTON—Every so often, the print media go into panic about the print media. Last week, The Economist magazine yelled “Who Killed the Newspaper?” on its front cover, while The New York Times looked into the sale of Knight Ridder, America’s second-largest newspaper chain, treating the story like a bellwether of the newspaper industry.

[REDWOOD99]

What's your take on this?

[Clintons Are White Trash]

It's committing suicide.

[Southack]

Populations in the U.S., India, and China are growing, yet newspaper circulation is only declining in the U.S.

Once can't help but conclude that the decline is newspaper circulation has as much to do with the Public's disdain of top-down spin and propaganda as with the Public's love and increasing use of the Internet.

How many Times (pun intended) must readers be assaulted by Paul Krugman's ridiculous and never-ending predictions of U.S. economic gloom and doom (never happened in his entire career) before people stop looking to the NY Times for economic insight, for example?

The Internet came into widespread usage just as powerful news media organizations were losing the last vestiges of their ethics (e.g. Dan Rather's forged National Guard documents, Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson's fabricated yellowcake attack on President Bush, etc.).

[Dilbert San Diego]

I think newspapers are losing circulation because you can read the paper on the internet, and there are so many more sources of news on the internet. You can get real time updates on what you want to know. No need to wait for the morning paper to be delivered.

[TXnMA]

Nobody killed the newspapers. They are committing gradual suicide...

[SteveMcKing]

Newspapers' death is saving more trees than they ever cried was possible through their environmental moaning.

[sarasmom]

"Nobody killed the newspapers. They are committing gradual suicide..."

Not at all!
They died off in a mass suicide jihad several years ago, didn't they?
LOL!

[fat city]

If it weren't for local news, the comics, local sports, crossword puzzles and Dear Abby, newspapers would have long ago been extinct. On the world stage they are irrelevant. And yet, they think that is their primary mission.

[A CA Guy]

Many newspapers are proving a bad value when their customers go on line and find out the stories they read are all bent.
Why pay for false news?

Dishonesty in a lot of reporting is what has been doing them in.

[lawnguy]

DNC fax machine regurgitators is all they are. Populated with marxists.

They can all go away.

As stated above. Give me the local news, straight down the middle, and otherwise shut the hell up. Most of you are an emabarrasment to the country, and a disgrace to the constitution that bestows on you such a sacred right, which you abuse and flaunt.

Guys like lil' Pinch should just be ashamed.

[backhoe]

My local paper has fairly decent editorials... and is otherwise a shill for the local school board ( translation- we need more taxes for the children ), a whitewash for the County Commissioners ( see "school board" ), and 80% filled with ads for stuff I don't want to buy.

Quit subscribing to it in 1999.