1 posted on
12/31/2009 7:18:54 AM PST by
abb
To: 04-Bravo; aimhigh; andyandval; Arizona Carolyn; backhoe; Bahbah; bert; bilhosty; Caipirabob; ...
2 posted on
12/31/2009 7:19:25 AM PST by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: abb
5 posted on
12/31/2009 7:24:19 AM PST by
Huskrrrr
To: abb
![](http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4b27d38000000000000f88bd)
That's not a chart. It's a drawing of a cliff.
![](http://www.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/19/00/1190085_d256b8c6.jpg)
7 posted on
12/31/2009 7:29:46 AM PST by
AAABEST
(And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it)
To: abb
Hmmmm...isn’t that a head and shoulders?
Doesn’t that predict a big rise?
8 posted on
12/31/2009 7:31:24 AM PST by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
To: abb
This is very interesting. Did anyone ever consider that newspaper consumption plummeted starting in the early 90s and precipitously fell in the late 90s due to the emergence of the Internet?
AlGore invents the Internet. Internet takes down newspapers. vis-a-vis AlGore takes down newspapers.
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9 posted on
12/31/2009 7:31:42 AM PST by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: abb
Oh, the poor buggy whip manufacturers.
What ever shall they do?
![](http://skew.dailyskew.com/uploaded_images/extinct1-745463.jpg)
![](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4175015880_cea9ebed9e_m.jpg)
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
11 posted on
12/31/2009 7:34:18 AM PST by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: abb
craigs list has had a lot to do with the death, by removing the huge cash cow of classified adds from the news papers. kind of ironic really since craig is a huge lefty.
To: abb
Do you have a chart showing local papers vs big city papers? I’m thinking local papers are not suffering as much, because local news isn’t covered by websites and wire services as much. Local papers have school sports, local ads, and other items that maintain readers. I get the local paper on thurs and sun. I like it. And anyway, my rabbits and guinea pigs need SOMETHING to crap on!
17 posted on
12/31/2009 7:50:35 AM PST by
Huck
(The Constitution is an outrageous insult to the men who fought the Revolution." -Patrick Henry)
To: abb
The collapse perfectly coincides with the rise of the Internet.
The print media has long been a virtual monopoly controlled by the left. Oh, there were many, many newspapers but the choice was always between mere varieties of left-wing agitprop.
When people are free to choose the news they read, they overwhelmingly reject the news they were forced to read.
To: abb
Some of the decline in the late 80s was due to the invention of Quark Xpress and newer forms of digital layout/typesetting. But it is a great graph which shows the decline, and more importantly, flags the peak of the industry. This also corresponds with the peak circulations of the big newspapers - I think the NYT had its all-time high circulation around the early 1990s.
23 posted on
12/31/2009 8:32:28 AM PST by
nwrep
To: abb
29 posted on
12/31/2009 8:48:55 AM PST by
VOA
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