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GONE WITH THE WIND - 2006

"There was a land of Publishers and Editors called the Newspaper Business... Here in this pretty world Journalism took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Reporters and their Enablers, of Anonymous Sources and of Stringers... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization Gone With the Wind..."

With apologies to Margaret Mitchell...

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"The Internet operations do not pay people to go out and gather accurate information."

From what I read in newspapers, they don't either.

[Maceman]

When the last reporter is laid off, we can subsist on rumor, speculation and gossip.

In other words, pretty much what we get now from the NYT, WP and the broadcast and cable news networks.

[I still care]

My area newspaper, the St Petersberg Times, is an absolute left wing shill. If they don't have anything negative to report about Conservatives, they make up an editorial headline and paste it up as news. Their latest jihad is we need to pay more property taxes.

I haven't bought one in years.

[knews_hound]

The local TV stations, with the exception of Fox, have cut back on traditional news coverage.

Now stop for a moment and think, why is that?

Could it be that in fact, the MSM isn't dying, but rather (pardon the pun), the BIASED media that is shrinking.

I realize that self reflection isn't their strong suit but how long will it be before someone in the MSM figures out that if they present an impartial view of the knews, they succeed, if they continue their biased coverage, they die.

Screw 'em I say.

Cheers,

knewshound

http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/

[pabianice]

One reason morale is down is reportorial work is getting exceedingly amateurish, biased, and unprofessional...

[Wicket]

The latest offer from the Oregon Fishwrap, AKA the Oregonian, is a 4 week free trial.

Not on your life - don't have a bird and my dog is already housetrained.

[stevem]

Other than the websites supported by newspapers, the Internet is devoid of reporters.

I doubt Free Republic is "supported" by newspapers. Free Republic does, though, have thousands of reporters.

[Cicero]

and just the other day, according to the Associated Press, "Misael Tamayo Hernandez, editor of El Despertar de la Costa, was found nearly naked, with his hands tied behind his back, in a room of the Venus Motel on a highway

Only the purest kind of Marxist, writing for "The Nation," would imagine that this explains the Death of the MSM.

Economics was never a strong point for Marxists.

[haroldeveryman]

"Average daily circulation dropped by 2.8 percent during the six-month period ended Sept. 30, compared with the period last year, according to an industry analysis of data released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Circulation for Sunday papers fell by 3.4 percent," wrote the New York Times.”

Gee, maybe the (former) customers of these "news" papers feel that they weren't getting what they were paying for. I suggest that they start checking their "facts". Then maybe I'll feel bad enough to send Nicholas Von Hoffman a handkerchief.

[Jacquerie]

I slowly savored every . . . single . . . word . . . of this great article and then reread it twice. I tried to recall the spin, lies and distortions they told about Reagan, Bork, and hundreds of other good men these past 30 years. The old liberal media is dying an agonizing death and I have as much compassion for them as I do for a dead cockroach.

[ken5050]

I can remember as a kid when NYC had ELEVEN daily newspapers. When Sputnik was launched, I used my entire week's allowance to buy a copy of every paper that day. I still have them all up in a trunk in the attic..

[Milhous]

When the last reporter is laid off, we can subsist on rumor, speculation and gossip.

MSM rumor, speculation and gossip will die with MSM.

So why not wiki-wacky news?

They already did that. They call it MSM.

[Dont Mention the War]

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[Dont Mention the War]

Since the major shareholders are interested in money, not product quality...

You know, this false argument gets really tiring. Product quality is not measured by the number of employees; it's measured by what the employees produce. If they'd stop producing trash that is both biased and generally unappealing to the consumer, then they'd still have enough readers to be making gigantic profits.

As I just posted higher up in this same thread, go to your local library sometime and dig out any random issue of your local paper from the 50's or 60's and compare it to any random issue of the same paper today. I guarantee you that you'll find the 40-to-50-year-old paper to have been a far superior product. The newspaper business turned on its customers starting around 1970 or so, give or take a few years (though Watergate unquestionably sealed the deal), and it's only due to the slow progress of technology up to this point that's caused their circulation to take this long to start declining. If newspapers were still worth reading, people would still be reading them. Nobody's stopped reading books because of the Internet.

[RedRover]

Thanks for the memories with that old Lampoon. (Rest in peace, Michael O'Donoghue.)

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Misael Tamayo Hernandez, editor of El Despertar de la Costa, was found nearly naked, with his hands tied behind his back, in a room of the Venus Motel on a highway, Zihuatanejo police officials said."


Sounds like the opening scenes from "Man On Fire" ... an absolutely EXCELLENT movie starring Denzel Washington and Chris Walken ...


Patton-at-Bastogne

"May God and His Angels Guard Your Sacred Throne, and May You Long Become It."

Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene II


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[okie01]

When the last reporter is laid off, we can subsist on rumor, speculation and gossip.

Tell me, Nicholas, ol' buddy, ol' pal, is "rumor, speculation or gossip" any worse than "DNC talking points"?

You have the right to remain silent...

[WOSG]

"So who needs newspapers anyhow? We have the Internet. Other than the websites supported by newspapers, the Internet is devoid of reporters. The Internet operations do not pay people to go out and gather accurate information. Thus we are bumping up against a contradictory situation. Thanks to the Internet, the iPod and so forth, we have more media outlets than ever before--but fewer reporters."

Ever hear of blogs?