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And Now Let Us Gasp In Astonishment At What Just Happened To The Newspaper Business
Business Insider ^ | 9/15/12 | Henry Blodget

Posted on 09/17/2012 6:11:36 AM PDT by DManA

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I wonder of Barry has promised a big subsidy to "save" the newspaper industry. It would explain their 24/7 campaign to reelect the President.
1 posted on 09/17/2012 6:11:38 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

I believe the subsidy will come in a form of a tax on the INTERNET, a tax that will be subject to state and local sales taxes so that all levels of government can put their hands in your money pocket.


2 posted on 09/17/2012 6:15:55 AM PDT by BilLies (The Progressive Liberal American Press will be the death of freedom in this country.)
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To: DManA
Too beautiful not to share:


3 posted on 09/17/2012 6:16:26 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (“We can’t just leave it (food choice) up to the parents.” moochele obozo 2/12/2012 (cnsnews))
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To: abb

ping.


4 posted on 09/17/2012 6:17:29 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: DManA
This is like gasping in astonishment at the moon rising, or at rain falling.
Their product is irretrievably obsolete.
5 posted on 09/17/2012 6:19:11 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: DManA

Seems like the bi-blog does a lot of “gasping.”. Working there must be a trip.


6 posted on 09/17/2012 6:20:11 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Romney/Ryan 2012)
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To: DManA

Is it just me, or does the cliff coincide with Obama’s election?


7 posted on 09/17/2012 6:23:38 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1337 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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To: BilLies

Liberals can’t resist a tax and then add more tax on the tax. I predict the newspapers will be back.


8 posted on 09/17/2012 6:27:15 AM PDT by virgil
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To: MrEdd

I don’t think it is.
The print edition is dead.

If the newspaper owners could figure out how to market their product electronically, they would be fine.


9 posted on 09/17/2012 6:27:19 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (I didn't post this. Someone else did.)
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To: DManA
Our Harrisburg paper just announced that it will reduce its distribution from 7 days a week to 3 days a week starting January 2013.

The question is, will scarcity increase demand or will less people read it because they'll become accustomed to going online for obituaries and police reports.

Of course, grocery store coupons will keep the Sunday paper in play.

10 posted on 09/17/2012 6:28:35 AM PDT by LoveUSA (God employs Man's strength; Satan exploits Man's weakness.)
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Funny. The day that the Atlanta Journal Constitution endorsed "Barry" and decided he was the answer (must've been a REALLY stupid question!) back in '08 was the day I decided that I had had more than enough and canceled my subscription.
11 posted on 09/17/2012 6:28:47 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO GTFO!)
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To: null and void

The cliff actually coincides with W’s two elections. Is there a pubbie conspiracy here?


12 posted on 09/17/2012 6:29:07 AM PDT by jimfree (In Nov 2012 my 12 y/o granddaughter has more relevant&quality executive experience than Barack Obama)
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To: DManA

wat U Xpect whn U spend $$$ N yrs 2 mAk pEpl literate N get txtglish?


13 posted on 09/17/2012 6:31:00 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: DManA
Between the Internet and the Leftward political agitprop being spewed by most "major" papers?

This surprises me not at all...

14 posted on 09/17/2012 6:31:13 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: DManA

Well, this made my day.


15 posted on 09/17/2012 6:31:38 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: jimfree

Nope. Just the advent of the growth of alternative news sources (Internet, etc) and a realization that the newspapers just mimic each other.


16 posted on 09/17/2012 6:32:17 AM PDT by rstrahan
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To: DManA

I could have wrote and summed this all up into a few words: Survival of the fittest. =.=


17 posted on 09/17/2012 6:33:39 AM PDT by cranked
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Just curious. Did you not know the paper’s political orientation before the editors endorsed Barack?


18 posted on 09/17/2012 6:37:40 AM PDT by OldPossum
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To: freedumb2003

—— Too beautiful not to share: ——

Lovely. Thank you.

Now to finish the job...


19 posted on 09/17/2012 6:38:00 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: null and void
Is it just me, or does the cliff coincide with Obama’s election?

The campaign of 2008 accelerated an inevitable decline. When the print media failed to examine any details on Obama, it drove the inquiring mind to alternative sources to answer even basic questions. This empowered alternative news sources, most of which were online.

The transition would have occurred anyway, but because of their own behaviour, the print media created a cliff where a slope would have been.

20 posted on 09/17/2012 6:42:23 AM PDT by CMAC51
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