Posted on 11/27/2006 12:27:08 PM PST by abb
"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...
Ping
Dino media dying, blame the real cause, lies, to many lies, not enough truth. The current media does Pravda proud.
It is tough to compete with "free".
Really, the only thing that can compete with "free" is "better", but some things don't lend themselves much to "better". Then you have to dupe people by packaging.
Which works with things that people WANT to do (like buy chic water...drawn from a tap somewhere else and put in a bottle and sold dearer than gasoline).
But it doesn't work with things people don't want to do, like "I lost my puppy" ads.
Health care in Canada is free. People who can afford and want better travel to the US.
Newspapers are getting slain by technology and their walnut-brained dinosaur inability to figure out new ways to make money when the old ways can be done for free.
And yet, Democrats win, NYT wins, Seymour Hersh wins, UN wins, North Korea wins, David Gregory wins, Geroge Soros wins, etc.
It all comes down to a lack of content that matters---NOT quality, seems to me.
It's nice to see the Lefties eating their own.
Of course they lump in the profitable sale of Clear Channel in with the expected sale of the Times, as if they were all being done for the same reason.
The only thing I questions is how tough Craig's list is as eBay's competition.
eBay is nearly free, and has a great search engine and database that covers the nation/world. Unless there is some feature I haven't found, Craigslist is useful only for local purchases (used snowblower).
I might take it more seriously if it could pull listings from any market. Maybe it can and I just haven't figured it out yet.
index for later.
Nancee
Well.. you can't really compare ebay to your local newspaper ads either. The ads in the paper (for the most part) are for local people selling local items, and there's no buyer protection. Craigslist emulates that, except in an electronic and FREE format.
I do have a recent experience with craigslist, and it was very positive. I sold an old farm tractor that I owned for many years. First, I paid $38 to have it advertised in the local paper for a full 4 weeks (included other smaller community papers as well). I got ZERO responses. I then put it on craigslist and got 3 responses within a few days, and had it sold within a week.
I agree that it's ONE of the things helping to kill the old media, but there are many other things killing it as well.
Say what you will, but the MSM still managed to throw this past election to the liberals. At least they lost money while doing it.
This column reeks of arrogance.
He may have to find a job in the real world where *those* people work and he is terrified at the prospect.
What a scattered set of metaphors, all those eyeballs rolling dizzyingly across a table script endlessly with dodging dollar signs.
In that respect, it sounds like a good deal. I've just been looking for an item on eBay with no success and thought maybe I'd strike gold on Craiglist until I found that it only searched Dallas, only searched San Francisco, etc.
Yeah, eBay's great for that kind of thing. I've had a run of bad luck with things getting broken in shipping lately, but at least they were insured. Before that, I'd done well over a hundred transactions with no problems at all.
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