The State of the News Media (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism ^ | March 16, 2009 | Staff

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Comprehensive study of dying dinosaurs.

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http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090313.wfcover14/BNStory/Business/home/?pageRequested=all
Future of Media: Is democracy written in disappearing ink?

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[MCCRon58]

Oh no, the Newspapers are dying??? What am I going to use to line Batbirds cage with???

[harpu]

Hmmmm...all the above just sounds to me like; “ A GOOD START” to a well-deserved end!”

[screaminsunshine]

Why advertise in something only moochers and freebie seekers pay any attention to. Maybe the food stamp and afdc agencys could advertise in the liberal publications.

[central_va]

The problem facing American journalism is not fundamentally an audience problem or a credibility problem.

credibility

LOL....

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http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/agency/e3i68061ff8eae6a637edec71be0fdc459f
Ad Spend Forecast Bleaker Still

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/189934-Pew_Research_Center_Report_More_Troubling_Signs_for_Broadcast_Networks.php
Pew Research Center Report: More Troubling Signs for Broadcast Networks

http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=135253
Online Payment Plan? How About a Print Payment Plan

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/mar/16/advertising-spend-decline
Advertising spend figures confirm huge decline

http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=135252
Cable Faces Tough Upfront Market

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003951616
More Specifics on Newspapers from ‘State of News Media’ Report

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03142009/business/2008_a_multimedia_ad_crash_159446.htm
2008 A MULTIMEDIA AD CRASH

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52F03520090316
Newspaper crisis spurs debate on free online news

http://www.foliomag.com/2009/signs-ad-supported-print-model-has-failed
Signs the Ad-Supported Print Model Has Failed

[qwertypie]

My local lib rag seems to be trying online video to compete with the local TV stations. I wonder if the latter is a dinosaur too?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

On line video might be the answer for metropolitan newspapers. They'd need some new kind of hourly programming that's not been invented yet. It could happen, tho.

[cblue55]

Will have to find something else to wrap my fish in.

[Major Matt Mason]

The problem facing American journalism is not fundamentally an audience problem or a credibility problem.

This is Pew saying this, so it must be taken with a grain of salt. They do have a credibility problem, which is one of the main contributing factors to the decline. Yet they keep trying to convince themselves that there is no credibility problem. Most newspapers now only appeal to 1/3 of their potential readers (DemocRats), so it is no wonder that this industry is dying.

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http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Media_economy_57/Mood_darkens_over_media_s_recovery.asp
Mood darkens over media’s recovery

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Media_economy_57/Ad_spending_falls_2_6_percent_in_2008.asp
Ad spending falls 2.6 percent in 2008

http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/state_of_the_news_media_the_qu.php?page=all
State of the News Media: The Quiz

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=131&aid=160118
Shirky, State of the Media Make the Case for Risk

http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/
The best and worst time for journalism

http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/
Shirky on Revolutions: They Aren’t Pretty

http://sellingprint.blogspot.com/2009/03/print-dead-it-depends-on-who-you-ask.html
Print Dead? It depends on who you ask.

http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/
How Low Can Newspaper Stocks Go?

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My local lib rag seems to be trying online video to compete with the local TV stations. I wonder if the latter is a dinosaur too?

Very much so. Revenues at local TV stations have plummeted. Used to, local TV and their huge towers and transmitters and studios were a required link in the network to get the signal into the home.

Now it's done via broadband.

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http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=123&aid=160109
Cable Grows Audience, Advertising While Other Media Decline

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1885349,00.html
The State of the Media: Not Good

http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/403593_globe15.html
P-I Globe: Please preserve me; don’t let me go

[EQAndyBuzz]

“In the last year, two important things happened that have effectively shortened the time left on that clock.

First, the hastening audience migration to the Web means the news industry has to reinvent itself sooner than it thought—even if most of those people are going to traditional news destinations.

Then came the collapsing economy. The numbers are only guesses, but executives estimate that the recession at least doubled the revenue losses in the news industry in 2008, perhaps more in network television.”

I would like to add a third thing.

Any business model based on ideology will eventually fail. It may take a week, a month, a year or a generation, but it is guaranteed to collapse.

This is based on the simple fact that a company cannot survive by excluding a majority of its potential customers and continuously forcing higher rates on the ones who do buy the product as well as the advertisers.

Of course there is a solution. Fire your left wing editors and give your young reporters an option. They can either report the news in a fair and balanced manner as is their responsibility as jounalists or they can also leave.

In addition, I would bring in editors who will take AP and other wire stories and scrub them for all bias.

I would make a major announcement to the community that the paper was in fact bias, all connections to that bias have been removed and that the paper is going to operate the way it is supposed to.

At the minimum it will increase readership and bring back some advertisers.

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They are genetically incapable of escaping their ideology. It is inbreed into these creatures. The only answer is extermination.

Metaphorically speaking, of course...

[Hardastarboard]

And yet the lefties (DU is where I go to monitor the nut house) bemoan the "conservative corporate media". Even though the media is overwhelmingly, undeniably, painfully, disgustingly liberal, leftist nut cases think they're a bunch of corporate conservatives.

The media can't win no matter what under the above scenario. They can't go much further left and maintain the ruse of being "neutral", and they won't go further right due to their ideology. They're just screwed, and honestly, it couldn't happen to a more deserving group.

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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/mostread/s_615999.html
My last words ...

http://www.thestate.com/editorial-columns/story/715805.html
Warthen: Thanks for all the kind words, folks