Posted on 10/28/2008 10:54:37 AM PDT by abb
After 100 years of publication, The Christian Science Monitor will stop the presses next year. For good.
Editor John Yemma said Tuesday that his Pulitzer-Prize-winning Boston-based newspaper will stop publishing a daily print edition in favor of its Web site and a to-be-launched weekly news magazine in April, saving $1.5 million to $2 million a year. The paper has been considering the move for two years and made its final decision in the last few weeks.
The paper was founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy in an attempt to silence the press from excoriating her church by offering a model of even-handed journalism.
Converting it into a digital-print hybrid is risky. Last month, comScore reports CSMonitor.com received 837,000 unique visitors--up from 595,000 during the same time last year--but still tiny compared to the 19.9 million monthly users at, say, NYTimes.com. Yemma says internal numbers place the number higher at 1.5 million--he wants to grow it to 6 million by 2013.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003878550
‘Christian Science Monitor’ to Drop Daily Publication
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Another fair and balanced vehicle gone. I guess you could print the articles so you’d have something to put on the bottom of the bird cage.
Good for us, bad for them. Anyone keeping score?
Can’t say that I’m sad. I made the mistake of reading a few of the Palin-bashing articles by one of its writers, Jimmy Orr, and thought that the tone in each was very troubling for a publication with the word “Christian” in its name.
The CSMs problems began over a decade ago, when they hired some ambitious types to run the organization. They decided to pump millions of dollars into an ill thought out TV venture, that depleted most of their resources.
Then they editorially migrated from “even handed” to “left wing bias” in the newspaper, and the die was cast.
Envisioning the future, both their magazine and Internet site will also go bust, because they have unreasonable expectations.
Another victim of MSM disease.
I had to put this on Blogs as it was sourced only via a blog, but it is even more good news.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2117695/posts?page=3#3
GCI (Gannett) said laying off 10% (3000) of newspaper staff (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
Sorry to see this paper disappear.
Whatever it’s roots, the CSM is anything but Christian. some time ago it went Left and became anothe parasitic rag no better then most of the lefty pubs!
See #11, sounds like they are still going to have news on a website.
Thanks -- I did see that! Enjoy the beach. It's effing chilly in my neck of the woods today.
Save trees, electricity, gasoline and other resources, close down more left wing biased bs posing as news in fishwraps.
I saw that!
The founder of this paper would be shocked and ashamed of what it has become. Mary Baker Eddy’s writings show her to have been fiscally, socially and morally conservative. She was no liberal and she founded the paper “to bless all and to injure none” — but to combat the kind of slanted “journalism” that the Monitor has now mostly become. What she wrote about such journalism 120 years ago (about ten years before founding the Monitor) perfectly describes what we today know as the MSM:
MALICIOUS REPORTS
“Truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” — Isaiah lix. 14.
When the press is gagged, liberty is besieged; but when the press assumes the liberty to lie, it discounts clemency, mocks morality, outrages humanity, breaks common law, gives impulse to violence, envy, and hate, and prolongs the reign of inordinate, unprincipled clans. At this period, 1888, those quill-drivers whose consciences are in their pockets hold high carnival. When news-dealers shout for class legislation, and decapitated reputations, headless trunks, and quivering hearts are held up before the rabble in exchange for money, place, and power, the vox populi is suffocated, individual rights are trodden under foot, and the cart of the modern Inquisition rolls along the streets besmeared with blood. Would not our Master say to the chief actors in scenes like these, ‘Ye fools and blind!’ Oh, tardy human justice! would you take away even woman’s trembling, clinging faith in divine power? Who can roll away the stone from the door of this sepulchre? Who — but God’s avenging angel!
(quoted from MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS by Mary Baker Eddy, pp 274-275)
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