Posted on 03/28/2008 10:59:47 AM PDT by edzo4
E&P Editor Greg Mitchell's new book is "So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and the President -- Failed on Iraq" (Union Square Press). It includes a foreword by famed war reporter Joe Galloway and a preface by Bruce Springsteen and has been hailed by vets leader Paul Rieckhoff.
This follows an article decrying the huge revenue loss in print media - they still absolutely refuse to get it.
What delicious irony...
.....The drop-off points to an economic slowdown .....
They have a wonderful excuse. The believe their own economic crisis stories that tell of a nonexistant recession.
I though ads increased in down turns? To gin up business and energise customers to buy.
Haven’t subscribed to a newspaper in 8 years. My Home page (Townhall) comes in as fast as I can hit the “on” button and it updates every hour, unlike the dinosaur print that was obsolete at 5:00 0’clock A.M. after it was inked and rolled off the press.
We have a local rag that does this here. I actually read all the local fishwraps online so there's no need to subscribe.
How long until calls for government subsidies?
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Isn’t E&P so far left, that the Slimes or AJConstipation seems neo Nazi by comparison?
Some time later I read that the Chronicle had been found to be hiking their advertising costs by inflating the numbers of their subscibers. I assumed they listed me as a subscriber--who never was.
The Audit Bureau of Circulation recently lowered the bar.Newsprint Circulation Scandals
Denver papers use liberal rules to boost circulation - 08/08/2005
Advertisers Sue 'Minneapolis Star Tribune' Over Circulation Inflation - 06/29/2005
Arrests made in Newsday circulation scandal - 06/16/2005
Belo Begins Refunding Advertisers Over Inflated Circulation Figures (Texas) - 05/02/2005
Newsday, Hoy publishers retire amid circulation scandal - 07/19/04
Tribune Company (LA Times parent) Admits Inflated Circulation Numbers At Two Papers - 06/23/2004
An agreed proposal at ABC's March meeting means that publishers can now charge as little as 1c for their newspaper and still count them towards paid circulation. And they can opt in weekend subscribers to the daily edition without permission, as long as there is some way to opt out if the householder actually doesn't want it (how thoughtful!). Previously anything less than 25% of a declared full price just didn't count and subscribers had to actually want more newspapers in order to receive them.Lowering the bar enables the entirety of dinofishwrap to ape the circulation practices of USA Today AKA "the nation's doormat." Post 16 illustrates the effectiveness of USA Today's business practice.
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