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'05 Proving To Be Worst Newspaper Year Since Recession
Media Daily News ^ | 10-31-05 | Ross Fadner

Posted on 10/31/2005 7:00:41 PM PST by HangnJudge

IT'S OFFICIAL: 2005 WILL BE the newspaper industry's worst year since the last ad industry recession. And things aren't looking much better for next year either, according to a top Wall Street firm's report on newspaper publishing. "Sadly, 2005 is shaping up as the industry's worst year from a revenue growth perspective since the recession impacted 2001-2002 period," says the report from Goldman Sachs, adding a warning that meaningful growth in 2006 is "very unlikely."

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To: HangnJudge

And this is a bad thing because.....
Deafening silence, Crickets.....
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LOL.

What's a newspaper?


61 posted on 10/31/2005 8:50:02 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: HangnJudge

Obviously it is not bad enough because The LA Times, the NYTimes, The Boston Globe, and the Miami Herald still exist.


62 posted on 10/31/2005 8:53:59 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: HangnJudge
Never considered total energy cost of distributing the news.

Another reason to get yer news from FR. We're greener than the NY Times!

63 posted on 11/01/2005 5:32:36 AM PST by aculeus
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To: HangnJudge

Someone should google this and find out what this "newspaper" thing they are talking about actually is...


64 posted on 11/01/2005 3:47:50 PM PST by Onelifetogive (* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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To: tiki

Today's news I get from FR and the web will be in my local paper on Friday.


65 posted on 11/01/2005 4:07:39 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: HangnJudge
Prophetic article from 1996: Why the big dailies will be extinct by the year 2006. Things appear to be moving right on schedule.


66 posted on 11/01/2005 4:18:28 PM PST by Plutarch
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To: HangnJudge

"... an industry besieged by flat ad revenues, falling stocks, and fleeing subscribers...

Sadly, 2005 is shaping up as the industry's worst year from a revenue growth perspective ...adding a warning that meaningful growth in 2006 is "very unlikely."

--"newspapers are at a tipping point," in which online media will start to take more readership and more ad dollars.

http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=35690


67 posted on 11/01/2005 8:35:52 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: HangnJudge
3.8% GDP growth and the Dinasour Media loses ground!!!!

Alito is so confirmed

68 posted on 11/01/2005 9:06:24 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Merry Alitomas!)
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To: HangnJudge
The weak ad environment for newspapers has caused Goldman to scale back its 2006 growth forecast to 3.5 percent from 4.0 percent.

Nah. Even 3.5 percent is too optimistic.

I would be surprised if 06 growth were even 2 percent. And from there, negative growth, with a steadily steepening slope.

There are way too many folks just like us here at F.R. who are finally ready cancel that daily insult to hardworking, law-abiding, troop supporting, English speaking, family oriented, truth-seeking, normal people.

Consider canceling your liberal newspaper. If you feel you cannot live without it, they'll let you resubscribe.

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69 posted on 11/01/2005 9:25:23 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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70 posted on 11/01/2005 10:10:17 PM PST by MarineBrat (When it rains, New Orleans makes its own gravy.)
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To: HangnJudge

Gee, if they'd just start a conservative newspaper or a conservative television network, they'd get rich.


71 posted on 11/01/2005 10:16:43 PM PST by GeronL (Leftism is the INSANE Cult of the Artificial)
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To: tiki
I still do. But only for the local public notices, the comic page and the crossword puzzle. The rest is recycled or used to wrap garbage.>/p>
72 posted on 11/01/2005 10:17:15 PM PST by JoeBob (If you live like sheep the wolves will eat you.)
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To: HangnJudge
It's comforting to know that there is still a price to pay in this nation for being proven to be dishonest and manipulative.
73 posted on 11/01/2005 10:30:40 PM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: HangnJudge
And yet, the newspapers continue to act like arrogant king-makers, just like they always have.

Someone needs to tell these guys to wake up. I recall someone from the NYT on Jon Stewart's show saying how Internet newsies are "people who want to have their own views affirmed" instead of getting the 'real news' from the MSM papers.

I was shocked that this guy, and clearly the Times in general, was so completely out of touch with how the world was changing.
74 posted on 11/01/2005 10:40:57 PM PST by Wiseghy (Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. – Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: JoeBob

The rest is recycled or used to wrap garbage.

They are good for kitty litter too. Actually, our community newspaper here has been growing by leaps and bounds, but they pretty much stay out of the MSM stuff and concentrate on local issues.


75 posted on 11/02/2005 2:33:20 AM PST by moog
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To: HangnJudge
And this is a bad thing because.....

Because it will inflict an unexpected financial burden on some readers. With diminishing number of pages per issue, the people that have depended on the newspaper to provide them with "free" bird cage liner and/or fish wrap will now have to spend additional monies to purchase those items ;-)

76 posted on 11/02/2005 4:16:29 AM PST by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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