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Washington Blade and Several Other Gay Newspapers Go Out of Business
The New York Times ^
| 11/16/2009
| Richard Perez-Pena
Posted on 11/16/2009 11:21:49 AM PST by GoldStandard
Gay newspapers in several U.S. cities, including the Washington Blade, shut down on Monday, as the company that owned them, Window Media, abruptly went out of business. Window Media had been in serious financial trouble, but employees said they had expected a reorganization or sale, not a liquidation.
We found out when two of the corporate officers were waiting for us when we got to work this morning, said Kevin Naff, editor of the Blade, a 40-year-old paper that was one of the most important publications written for a gay audience. Its not a complete surprise. The abruptness of it was what was surprising.
The papers roughly 20 employees are determined to come back and make of a go of it as an independent entity, he said. Our first meeting is tomorrow.
Employees at Southern Voice, an Atlanta-based gay paper owned by Window Media, found their offices locked on Monday, and a note posted on the door saying that the company had ceased operation. It told the workers to return Wednesday with boxes to collect their belongings.
(Excerpt) Read more at mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: dinosaurmedia; epicfail; homosexualagenda; ivorytower; lavendermafia; liberalmedia; lol; napl; theend; washingtonblade; yellowjournalism
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To: a fool in paradise
OH OH look out it’s the oppressors Christian’s, Republican’s and Nazis oh my.
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posted on
11/16/2009 11:38:11 AM PST
by
boomop1
To: GoldStandard
Gay newspapers in several U.S. cities, including the Washington Blade shut down on Monday...
See!
And people laughed when I said there'd be major repercussions when Justice David Souter retired.
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posted on
11/16/2009 11:40:45 AM PST
by
Condor51
(The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
To: GoldStandard
Well, I guess they just couldn’t keep it up. Newspapering is a hard business. It requires a lot of juice.
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posted on
11/16/2009 11:42:38 AM PST
by
RexBeach
To: Hodar
Of the 3-7% of the population, what market penetration could they reasonably expect? 3-15% would probably be somewhat reasonable, so if we multiply 7% x 15% we wind up with a best case scenario of ~1% of the population purchasing this paper. Plus, it was a FREE paper; the only revenue was from advertising. I've walked by one of their paperboxes every day for almost twenty years, and have only ever picked up two copies - one to see what the controversy over placing them in public libraries was, and one when they did a special on Pope Benedict.
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posted on
11/16/2009 11:44:59 AM PST
by
nina0113
To: jessduntno
But it was faaaabulous while it lasted.
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posted on
11/16/2009 11:51:03 AM PST
by
stbdside
To: Hodar
I don’t buy the 3-7%, but even at 1-2%, there’s still enough consumers to sustain a worthwhile publication. Have you seen some of the obscure magazines out there? There are multiple magazines for chess enthusiasts alone!
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posted on
11/16/2009 11:52:42 AM PST
by
ConservativeWarrior
(In last year's nests, there are no birds this year.)
To: Hodar
Please don’t use terms like “market penetration.”
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posted on
11/16/2009 11:56:09 AM PST
by
dangus
(Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
To: GoldStandard
How come a Gay paper had trouble with market penetration?
To: dangus
To: Hodar
By the way, since they don’t have kids and don’t need to plan for retirement, gays are well-known by marketers for having sizeable disposable incomes relative to their earnings. Why do you think that churches are falling over themselves to be so gay-friendly? They want those wills!
They’re also trendy, which means their purchases are very heavily influenced by marketers.
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posted on
11/16/2009 11:59:58 AM PST
by
dangus
(Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
To: GoldStandard
Anyone seriously thing they won’t be back? Not I.
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posted on
11/16/2009 12:01:15 PM PST
by
Freddd
(CNN is not credible.)
To: GoldStandard
You just knew that this would come to a bad end.
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posted on
11/16/2009 12:03:34 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: agere_contra
That’s okay. You can still make some remark about liquifying their assets, filing for Section 8 bankruptcy, or something like that.
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posted on
11/16/2009 12:03:36 PM PST
by
dangus
(Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
To: Navy Patriot
They couldn’t find an accountant to play it straight?
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posted on
11/16/2009 12:04:27 PM PST
by
dangus
(Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
To: Navy Patriot
I wonder if their debts were in arrears.
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posted on
11/16/2009 12:05:11 PM PST
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
To: GoldStandard
All that work and they just blew it!
Did I really say that!
Maybe someone told the owners to shove it up their... ah..never mind.
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posted on
11/16/2009 12:07:26 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(The sword does not kill. It is a tool in the killer's hand.---Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
To: GoldStandard
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posted on
11/16/2009 12:08:50 PM PST
by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: GoldStandard
The left their subscribers “behinds”?
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posted on
11/16/2009 12:11:13 PM PST
by
RVN Airplane Driver
("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
To: GoldStandard
Employees at Southern Voice, an Atlanta-based gay paper owned by Window Media, found their offices locked on Monday, and a note posted on the door saying that the company had ceased operation.Employees, bend over....
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posted on
11/16/2009 12:17:15 PM PST
by
NRA1995
(Obama, when you lie, we're going to call you out)
To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
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posted on
11/16/2009 12:20:47 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
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