Posted on 07/01/2019 10:34:15 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
I will rejoice when the rag Allentown Morning Call goes out of business. They are now owned by the Chicago Tribune.
Too bad, so sad. Let them learn how to code.
Well, you’re living there in Allentown...................
One hundred and fifty years of lies and now it’s over! Good news whenever a rag goes out of business. Nice news to start a week off.
Exactly, newspapers and soon many other product sellers will find out that openly and hatefully opposing 50% of America is not a good marketing scheme.
It is said that when there is only one lawyer in a town, he will go broke. When there are two lawyers they both get rich.
Same with newspapers. With one newspaper, it presents just one point of view. A second newspaper can balance out that view and they keep each other honest.
Driving competition out is not always the best business decision.
Today you can pick up a newspaper from anywhere in the nation and they will all speak with one voice. Owners of newspapers told over half their potential customer we don’t want you as a customer and so their customers found other sources for their news.
Die you leftist lying RAT party propaganda hacks die! Another one bites the dust!
I have wondered if there is a major conservative newspaper left?
The WSJ doen’t count and they aren’t “conservative” in most aspects anyway.
There used to be that family owned paper in NH somewhere.
The online revolution dogpiled on the daily print medium, which had taken lumps with the advent of radio (and how's radio doing?) and television (dancing with the 'stars') -- and we already know the attacks on conservative views online is escalating. Be careful what you wish for.
Living in Allentown listening to Billy Joel songs......
you are thinking of the Manchester Union
Gone
“””I have wondered if there is a major conservative newspaper left?”””
I doubt a major conservative newspaper exists.
For one thing, most of today’s newspapers are staffed by journalism graduates who paid mega-bucks to get indoctrinated in leftist ideology.
And the Union people crawled awaaaaaaaaaayayyayayayaaaaaaaaaaay!.................
If you want news, go online or listen to the radio. If you want history, read a newspaper or a magazine.
The major $$$ income for newspapers now is Political $$$.
Paid political ads from both parties.
If they can get both parties fighting...they make more money.
If it’s like our “local paper,” all it does is reprint stories from the New York Times and Washington Post.
When I was a kid, newspapers were THE place for movie listings, buying and selling cars and other items, stock market prices, sports, and comics.
All those are gone. Nobody buys a newspaper to see what's showing and the showtimes, and movie theaters don't advertise there, anymore. Nobody checks stock prices in a newspaper. Nobody checks car prices in the newspaper. The comics keep getting smaller, and the last "must read" newspaper comic was Calvin and Hobbes, which left in 1995. New talent isn't going into the newspaper business.
The newspapers are down to covering the local business scene, local non-professional sports teams (high school and college) and obituaries.
They can still survive in one zip code towns, but to do so, they have to focus on local stuff and keep the staff really lean.
Best quote on Superman: "The most unrealistic part of the movie was a guy making a living as a reporter."
Ditto for the Seattle Times and WaPo and the NYT - asking much??
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