[Nick Danger]

I don't know what to tell this guy. I don't think they have a future. I haven't picked up a paper newspaper in years.

The average newspaper in the United States consists of the same Associated Press stories that I can read the day before on the Internet, the local random acts of violence — which I never really cared about anyway — and news of which local politicians have their hand in the till. That, and a bunch of ads.

When you live where I live, and frigging Marion Barry is on your city council, you don't even have to read the paper to know who has his hand in the till. So I have no use for them.

Safeway now sends me the coupons in my email. The other store even has a web site where I can order stuff and they'll deliver it for five bucks.

I really have no clue how a local newspaper can be made to survive. They already slept through having eBay and Craig's List make the classifieds obsolete — what have they got left?

[SkyPilot]

I really have no clue how a local newspaper can be made to survive. They already slept through having eBay and Craig's List make the classifieds obsolete — what have they got left?

Good question. My local newsrags in New Jersey give the Liberal comfort. They pick them up to read Doonesbury, and other cartoons like that the one from that black racist titled "The Boondocks." It helps Liberals to believe there are other people out there who share their world views, hatred of President Bush / Republicans, and fantasies of secular utopia.

Moreover, the Liberals get to read and write "Letters to the Editor"--so they can spout off the daily talking points of the War on Terror being a conspiracy to make Haliburton rich and how homosexual sex and the idea for a cable station called "The Abortion Channel" is the key to happiness.

[Milhous]

what have they got left?

Classified ads.

[hinckley buzzard]

Rpert Murdoch told these fossils that to survive, newspaper companies which find niches in smaller communities will do better, and going to tabloid size format is a great covenience over the traditional size paper, which really is an anachronistic pain in the a&&. My guess is that neither recommendation will be followed, anywhere. Not that I care, newsies are a bunch of arrogant mediocrities, imo, and deserve to have to go get honest work.