Posted on 06/22/2008 4:24:56 PM PDT by GOPGuide
NEWSPAPER AD REVENUE PLUNGES, SPREADING FEAR IN INDUSTRY... DEVELOPING...
It telling when you realize that in 2008, Pravda provides more accurate reporting of the news that the NY Times.
Drudge only spreads the news. He doesn’t invent it.
They so want to change the world ...
It would be heartening to see as much enthusiasm on FR for "rotten Administration, Senators and Congressmen need to go"!
I wonder how much oil and fresh water it takes to make all that news print paper?
You have to be kidding!
Hey Liberals! When these junk papers go under, can you imagine how many trees will be saved?
If the dead tree media folds, who will tell us?
“But where will all the young leftists at J school go? They want so much to make a difference.”
They’ll fill up the English and Multi-Cultural Studies classes, then they will write leftist blogs and magazine articles in the leftie mags...
Me.
I agree. With the LA Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Post right behind it. Death to the presstitutes.
Too bad NPR and PBS are impervious to market forces, what with the stealing tax money from my pocket at gunpoint and all...
Rush Limbaugh. :-)
Too bad newsprint had to go down the yellow journalism road so wholeheartedly.
Call me old-fashioned, but I’m afraid all-electronic could be even more manipulable (is that a word?). For example, rewriting or occulting history is so much easier.
The arrogance of the higher ups is unbelievable. They have been comfortable so long and raked in millions in ad revenue that they cannot/will not see the train bearing down on them.
I cannot feel sorry for them. I still remember them basically laughing at the auto dealers who paid outrageous ad fees who would attempt to boycott the newspaper, but of course they would always come back because the newspaper was the only one available in the whole area.
"Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis... Fit semper tempore peior homo." *
* "The times change and we change with them... As they become worse, so do we."
Sadly, while they pay little heed to the first part, they truly reflect the second.
Not really, just propagating and distributing it is, but that also became much easier with the advent of typewriters and telegraph and radio and TV and fax compared to relatively "old media" - faster and cheaper communication and distribution of news and opinions often masquerading as "news".
But on the other and very positive side, same advances in technology allow for faster, fuller and more encompassing debunking of history rewriters or "history makers" - Dan Rather's Texas AG "incident" was prime example and watershed. The cheap storage / archiving and fast indexing / searching / retrieval of facts and historical material along with commentary can't help but facilitate refuting of "rewriters" and sending them in short order to the "ash heap of history".
Stay old-fashioned, but have no fear - electronic is here, electronic is inevitable and electronic is good - the power of processing of information (storage + search + retrieval) now "belongs to the people". By contrast, old media with limited reproduction and delivery "bandwidth" just was not capable of delivering it to "the masses" (Alvin Toffler emphasized media "de-massifying" in Third Wave 30 years ago), and was not really interested in it if it meant losing control over means of delivery of content, because it would mean losing control over content.
Power to the people! Don't you just love killing them softly with their own slogans?
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