Stunning numbers...great post....
“That means there were more people on that government health care program [Medicaid] for at least a month than the combined number (69,721,000) of newspapers put into circulation daily and people visiting newspaper websites daily.
I mourn my ability to post and see ping’d responses....today...
Sounds like a cause for celebration to me.
When is the last time the MSM did that?
The numbers were not adjusted for inflation.
$1.1 B in 1993 is $1.78 B today.
The Globe sold for 6.3 % of its original price.
Part of the reason for their demise is that many people are leaving media with long sentences and structured paragraphs for short bursts of emotion-laden poorly thought out babblings. Many people get all the information that they will ever get from Twitter twittings.
To talk about depth of knowledge with the new media would be ludicrous. It doesn’t even deserve the word “superficial.”
People read 140 characters of someone’s mouth droppings and they think they know something. They retwit it and soon millions are babbling about the latest twittering. This passes for knowledge. Unsurprisingly, the people who do the most twittering voted for 0bama in mass.
[I know it’s tweets, but I have a lot of respect for birds.]
If John Henry wants to throw money away, I’m right here and quite willing to take some of the burden off his shoulders.