Posted on 02/28/2009 9:49:27 AM PST by Baladas
CBS) The venerable Rocky Mountain News published its final edition Friday, just two months shy of its 150th anniversary.
Colorado's oldest paper is just the latest to succumb to severe, industry-wide financial pressure stemming from declining ad revenue and circulation.
Other high profile publications, including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Tucson Citizen, and, perhaps most importantly — because its home is already a one-newspaper town — the San Francisco Chronicle. Thirty-three U.S. papers have filed for bankruptcy protection.
What does it all mean for the nation, and where is the trend headed?
The demise of the Rocky Mountain News is, says Columbia Journalism Review Executive Editor Mike Hoyt, "quite sad." He told Early Show Saturday Edition co-anchor Erica Hill it not only cost many people their jobs, it's "a voice lost. Newspapers are very tied in with the community, and "The Rocky" had a personality. It's a big loss.
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After two generations of Public Education (Liberal Indoctrination Centers), newspapers don’t have enough readers...go figure.
Waiting to here Obama’s going to bail out the newspapers. He might as well there just as criminally culpable as ACORN in ushering in this marxist regime we are now subjected to. Happy to here one by one they are eating the dirt , lies and desceptions they vomited on us all this time.
FYI..seems the weekend crew is on the job here at FR..it’s a lot of work, chronicalling (like the pun?) the MSM’s demise
That's no joke.
Visualize unemployed liberals. (-:
A mortician is on call 24/7...
It seems inevitable that printed newspapers are fated to go extinct for the most part. Some of it has to do with the advent of the electronic information age and the internet, but a lot of the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of the owners and editors who gave up journalistic integrity and slanted the news and made everything into an editorial comment, instead of balanced reporting.
Even though I haven't subscribed to or read any newspaper on a regular basis for many years, I have to admit I feel a little twinge of sadness and nostalgia seeing the RMN go away.
How about we get someone in Congress to propose a TAX!
A TAX on NEWSPRINT!
Whereas a large portion of every landfill is used for discarded newspapers and
Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and
Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and
Whereas the distribution of newspapers requires the use of dirty internal combustion engines Therefore:
Be it resolved that a Newsprint tax, of $1,000.00 per pound, be charged to EVERY newspaper with a daily subscription, within the United States!
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We should get some Republican to propose THIS as an amendment to any “cap and trade” or “carbon tax” proposal that comes up!
“quite sad”? No, it’s the market working. Nobody wants or needs their product.
Where is the Christian Science Monitor? They are still around, aren’t they? Didn’t they go all electronic a few months ago?
To the extent there is a demand for accurate news, someone will step forward and supply that demand, almost certainly in an internet format. Dinosaur Media Death Watch, indeed.
Question: With all the print media dying out, does that mean our national socialist zealots in government will give more 1st Amendment respect to the internet?
It means that SeeBS News is on the list.
The newspapers today are basically full of regurgitated wire stories, poorly assembled and chock-full of grammatical errors that my fourth-grade teacher would have flunked me for. The weather section is an embarrassment. Why bother? The cliche-ridden sports section is equally useless. Even the comic strips are nothing more than the same old uninspired dreck.
This is kind of what happens when ostracize half your readership.
Fairness Doctrine.
They will supress what they don't like, just like China.
Visualize unemployed liberals. (-: = higher unemployment benefits )-:
Soon to be replaced by the National Federal Newspaper
delivered and censored by the Federal Govt. and paid with US tax dollars via bailout.
Might as well call it ‘The Propaganda Times’.
Will Obama bail them out? It’s not like he doesn’t already own them.
Soon to be replaced by the National Federal Newspaper
delivered and censored by the Federal Govt. and paid with US tax dollars via bailout.Might as well call it ‘The Propaganda Times’.
Just call it “Pravda” and be done with it.
They were afraid to “try the truth” even unto death. They deserve their fate.
I think what we’ll see is basically just a handful of regional newspapers in the country, with city bureaus, there are some anti-trust issues that need to be ironed out, but in reality, that’s the only way I could see the business model working in the long-run.
For example, here in Texas, I foresee the Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, etc. basically all merging to form one statewide newspaper, with separate editions for each major market in the state. That would get rid of a lot of redundancy across the various news properties that we have now.
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