Posted on 04/14/2020 11:49:42 AM PDT by rintintin
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. California newspapers are asking the state to help rescue their industry, as the economic crisis from the coronavirus slashes print advertising revenues, causing layoffs in an already battered industry, even as reporters are deemed essential workers during the pandemic.
In a dire request this week from the California News Publishers Association to the governor and state lawmakers, the newspapers asked for tailored grants and loans, sales tax exemptions for local papers and tax deductions for subscribers and advertisers.
“The COVID-19 virus has left the newspaper industry, already struggling financially, gasping for air,” wrote the group's president, Simon Grieve, the publisher of Gazette Newspapers in Long Beach
Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/news/article241932581.html#storylink=cpy
(Excerpt) Read more at kansas.com ...
Die, newspapers, die.
Die die die.
Die die die die die die die die die die!!
They’re dead, Jim; They just don’t know it.
It would suit me just fine.
Maybe they can drink that ink that they buy by the barrel.
Everyone has their hand out...Sheeshhh!!
They are the enemy of the People.
Die a thousand deaths
While NPR just got a big chunk of taxpayer money.
“BY CUNEYT DIL ASSOCIATED PRESS”
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Nope. Not gonna touch that name. Nope. Nopity, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope.
Unquestioning 1 way programming/propaganda and their parrots need to go down. Yesterday.
Victoria Stodden
Associate Professor of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Where Did You Get That Fact?
We are being inundated every day with computational findings, conclusions, and statistics. In op-eds, policy debates, and public discussions numbers are presented with the finality of a slammed door. In fact we need to know how these findings were reached, so we can evaluate their relevance, their credibility, resolve conflicts when they differ and make better decisions. Even figuring out where a number came from is a challenge, let alone trying to understand how it was determined.
https://www.edge.org/responses/q2013
(if you go...a little more than halfway down on the scroll bar on the right)
The scientific method suggests skepticism when interpreting conclusions, and a responsibility to communicate scientific findings transparently, so others may evaluate and understand the result. We need to bring these notions into our everyday expectations when presented with new computational results. We should be able to dig in and find out where the statistics came from, how they were computed, and why we should believe them. Those concepts receive almost no consideration when findings are publicly communicated.
(from same)
Learn To Code
Ditto!
HA!
I would be sympathetic if the alleged "reporters" and "editors" were fair and honest journalists, rather than lockstep, obligate, fifth-column, shining path mongers of left-wing dogma and candidates.
LA Slime, Frisco Chronicle, Santa Cruz Mercury News, Sacramento Bee, and a few others. Good bye, good riddance.
Jeff Bezos to the rescue.
Their circulation should’ve gone up with the great toilet paper shortage. I don’t know about anybody else on this forum but I’ve been buying newspapers to use toilet paper and I cannot be the only one. I tried magazine pages but the paper is just too slick to work well.
P.S. : don’t forget to take the AP (asinine press) with you.
Simon Grieve. What a perfect name. I wonder if they have a Basil Gnash or a Nigel Wail.
In much of America, newspapers are a virus.
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