Posted on 06/02/2009 12:04:23 PM PDT by William Tell 2
June 1 was the last edition. Another conservative news outlet bites the dust.
It's that, but more than technology, it's a change in market needs, and the refusal of print media to capitalize on the changing opportunities.
For the past century, the print media's main purpose was to buy syndicated news from AP/UPI from the outside world to reprint and sell to their local subscribers. Gathering local news was secondary.
The emerging market opportunity is for the print media to gather local news and distribute it to the greater world using the internet. The proof that the print media management hasn't the foggiest clue what is happening is that their web pages and articles most often do not clearly identify their own location. They are still assuming they have only a local market.
Another big problem with all types of media is that conservatives don't want to pay for liberal lies, and liberals don't pay for anything.
It did. The one that just went under was a more recent reincarnation of the old afternoon paper. I was actually a Bulletin paper boy about 50 years ago. It was TV news that killed the old Bulletin. Why spend 5 cents to read the news when Walter Cronkite would read it to you for free.
It did. In 1982.
This was the new Bulletin, started 5 years ago.
Not the best time to start a newspaper.
Thanks for the update regarding the Bulletin. I didn’t know that a new Bulletin had started up.
It was very interesting that you used to deliver the old Bulletin. I have been gone from Philly since 2000. I used to resd the Daily News because it was easier to turn the pages while hanging on to a strap or post on the subway.
Both the News and the Inquirer are bent to the left, but that is true of most newspapers. Every now and then I look at theDaily News online. It makes me glad to be in Montana.
I was a member of the Phila. Athletic Club for fifteen years. I worked out three hours a day, at least five days a week over those years. I guess I am a gym junkie.
I had my schedule set up so that I got those three hours off during the middle of the day. I used to get the News from Samkmy, who had a stand in front of the club.
Anyway, thinking about things I miss about Philly, I include the Italian Market and China Town. No Chinese food worth the name out here in the mountains. No mozzorella from Taluto’s or garlic sausage from D’Angelo’s on 9th St.
Are you still in Philadelphia? Do you think America will survive the next 100 days of the Obama Administration? (Smile)
The bright side is that the Bulletin owners will have lost less in the end than Philadelphia Newspapers.
From what I understand, no they can't keep it going on line. But we can always hope I heard wrong.
Maybe they'll regroup and start again.
It was a conservative paper.
No we’re closed permanently.
Dear Readers,
Publication of The Bulletin has temporarily ceased. We hope to resume publication again in the near future.
All subscribers will receive a notice outlining our plans. We will also continue to post status updates on our website.
Thank you for your continued support of The Bulletin.
Sincerely,
Thomas G. Rice (publisher@thebulletin.us) Publisher
Sad. I had hoped they would have grown to get a valid home delivery network active here in the weeds, but I guess digging out of the Philly slime was too much.
Bulletin may not be dead just yet.
Good cause we get it everyday in the mail.
Wonderful!!!!!
I used to help my brother deliver the originial bulletin. He would take me with him when he went door-to-door to collect because people would give him a bigger tip because I was there and they thought he shared the tips with me. He didn’t. LOL
I was born and raised in Philadelphia. After college in Boston, I went back to Philadelphia for law school and practiced there for 17 years before moving to Washington. I have all the same pangs about leaving the City. We moved to Annapolis and immediately went into Italian food withdrawal. We would invite friends to visit and sail with us, but their price of admission was a care package from the Italian Market. One of my law partners in Philadelphia was a nephew of Frank Palumbo, and I love the nights we spent in that place.
Annapolis is wonderful, and after 20 years it has become home. But Philadelphia is a special place.
Go Iggles!
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