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The Print Media Are Doomed (Dinosaur Media DeathWatchâ„¢)
Business Week ^ | January 1, 2008 | Jeff Jarvis and Chris Tolles

Posted on 01/01/2009 5:32:31 AM PST by abb

Surpassed in convenience and economy by online content, printed magazines and newspapers will dry up in the next decade. Pro or con?

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Pro: Disappearing Ink

by Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine.com

Whether or not print dies, its business model will. Physical wares—newspapers, books, magazines, discs—will no longer be the primary or most profitable means of delivering and interacting with media: news, fact, entertainment, or education.

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Con: The Power of Print

by Chris Tolles, Topix

Given that I run an online-only news site here in Silicon Valley, you’d think I’d be arguing that print is already dead.

But the technology business teaches you that nothing ever goes away completely. Mainframes, Fortran, and paper all survive, despite PCs, Java, and the paperless office.

What’s really changing is the role of content itself.

Online, it’s participation that becomes the product, with the content merely an ingredient of the real product. And print becomes a great vehicle to promote that new, experiential online product.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: advertising; biasmeanslayoffs; dbm; newspapers; trysellingthetruth
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To: Iron Munro
Why pay for propaganda, lies, half-truths and mis-information when others are willing to provide it for free?

Yes. This is why a government bailout for the Drive-By Media makes no sense. The Drive-Bys have given Organized Government free PR forever.

21 posted on 01/01/2009 6:52:02 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

The Washington Times has an offer now at a local supermarket (Shoppers). $3.25 a month, delivered 6 days a week. First 3 months are free because you get a $10 Shoppers gift card when you sign up.

I wouldn’t read the Wapo, even if it’s free, but I’ll read the Washington Times.


22 posted on 01/01/2009 6:53:35 AM PST by japaneseghost
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To: All

Magazines will follow. Outdoor mag’s prop up their “readership” by sending free copies to companies like ours. We are in the outdoor business and we don’t read any of the rag’s we’re sent because they too are filled with stories about products that are proven “Duds”. As lifelong outdoorsmen & women we know and test what works and 95% of the articles are written to help a mfg dump a bad line.

Print media is dying because the internet is exposing their blanket deceptions at “no charge”.


23 posted on 01/01/2009 7:37:03 AM PST by liberty or death
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To: abb
Please,(insert politically correct religious figurehead here), WHEN will they finally stop throwing their unsolicited (B)olshevik (S)tupidity in my driveway?

Please tell me when!

Best regards,

24 posted on 01/01/2009 7:37:57 AM PST by Copernicus (California Grandmother view on Gun Control http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7CCB40F421ED4819)
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To: abb
First..HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! to you, abb, ( and others on these recurring threads) and thanks for the great job you do each day of compiling all these articles for us to peruse...it is appreciated.

Now that the new year is upon us, perhaps it is time to retire the hyena and vultures pics and see if we can come up with something new as our official signature for 2009. FReepers can post their entries on this thread...

25 posted on 01/01/2009 7:46:32 AM PST by ken5050
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To: ken5050

Newspaper Box Graveyard
26 posted on 01/01/2009 7:52:06 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

“...will dry up in the next decade”.

DECADE!!!??? The fall started long, long ago and is now in it’s terminal stage. I’d bet that the NYT doesn’t have 2 years unassisted.


27 posted on 01/01/2009 8:04:08 AM PST by TalBlack
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To: abb

Killing trees for lies is dead.


28 posted on 01/01/2009 8:08:12 AM PST by bmwcyle (I have no President as of Jan 20th 2009. No Congress either.)
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To: incredulous joe

Ooops


29 posted on 01/01/2009 9:39:35 AM PST by NCBraveheart (OBAMA/STALIN 2012...CHANGE YOU WILL SUBMIT TO!!!!)
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To: abb
Happy New Year as we smile and watch the print mediots spin and lie until their fishwraps close their doors.

The core principal of most Dinosaur Fish Wraps: "BETTER RED AND DEAD THAN READ!"

30 posted on 01/01/2009 10:46:06 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals or foreign or domestic terrorists or both?)
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To: abb; tubebender

That is a great picture.

Tubebender and I have posting observations and articles about how the Frisco GayRhonicle and the Portlant Pravada/Oregonian are no longer even selling their trash or delivering it in NW California and SW Oregon.

A decade ago, grocery and drug stores in those areas would have massive stacks of these worthless fishwraps inside and in the racks outside. Home delivery of these worthless fishwraps was common.

After the 2004 election, the massive stacks of Sunday Papers inside those stores have basically disappeared. Maybe a Newspaper Box outside was/is still there. At first weekday home deliveries were cancelled and then the Sunday deliveries.

31 posted on 01/01/2009 11:02:02 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals or foreign or domestic terrorists or both?)
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To: Grampa Dave

A good friend of mine emailed me the other day and said the New Orleans Times-Picayune is stopping delivery in Baton Rouge. They’ve not announced it publicly, but I’ll watch for the article when it comes out.


32 posted on 01/01/2009 11:04:54 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb; tubebender

“A good friend of mine emailed me the other day and said the New Orleans Times-Picayune is stopping delivery in Baton Rouge. They’ve not announced it publicly, but I’ll watch for the article when it comes out.”

A friend, who opted out of the fishwrap scams, decades ago, said that advertisers were really looking at the real stats re subscriptions and news racks sells, like where are those subscriptions and news racks.

She noted that if your business was in San Francisco and a little in the north Bay area, paying $’s for total circulation sales with ads going to Ukiah, Willets, Eureka and Crescent subscriptions/news rack sales didn’t help your local business.

So this was a little dirty secret the Fishwraps around America had. So they subsidized the costs of shipping the fishwraps in some cases hundreds of miles to get their circulation and news rack sales up or just to maintain them.

Enter the rising gasoline/diesel prices the past 3-4 years until the recent downturn. Their long range deliveries became another daily/weekly/monthly/yearly cost drag. So those subsidized deliveries are being cancelled across the country.

The internet of course has minimalized any real need for a newspaper printed hundreds of miles away and delivered hours if not a day later with the end consumer.


33 posted on 01/01/2009 11:22:21 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals or foreign or domestic terrorists or both?)
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To: SouthDixie
Trees are breathing a sigh of relief.

As are the libs.

34 posted on 01/01/2009 1:50:48 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Lee Enterprises is owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

http://www.fitzandjen.com/2008/12/no-champagne-in-davenport-as-lee-swings-to-879-million-08-loss-on-billionplus-goodwill-writeoff.html
No Champagne In Davenport As Lee Swings To $879 Million ’08 Loss On Billion-Plus Goodwill Write-Off


35 posted on 01/01/2009 1:51:58 PM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

Think of all the trees that will be saved. The libs must be ecstatic! Wait, they’re not?


36 posted on 01/02/2009 2:03:56 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Join us on the best FR thread, 8000+ posts: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts)
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To: Grampa Dave
After the 2004 election, the massive stacks of Sunday Papers inside those stores have basically disappeared.

I forgot about those! They used to have stacks and stacks of the Chicago Tribune for purchase. When I moved to AZ, it was the Republic. No more! Good riddance.

37 posted on 01/02/2009 2:16:48 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Join us on the best FR thread, 8000+ posts: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts)
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To: abb

I just got my PC Magazine in the mail. There was an announcement that after 27 years oof publishing they were shutting down their print magazine and going digital-only.

I’m really sad...I’ve read that magazine almost continuosly these many years, and they are no more.

And here near Klamath Falls, Oregon, a local newspaper announced they won’t be printing on Mondays.

I personally find the whole thing sad, except for the uber-liberal papers. I love reading newspapers and have read between three to five per day for decades, and sorry, but reading them on-line is nothing like reading them in newsprint.

Ed


38 posted on 01/07/2009 8:04:51 AM PST by Sir_Ed
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