[IrishCatholic]

I think to save themselves they need to move further to the left politically. They just aren’t liberal enough for mainstream America. If they all agree to do this I think they will see an astounding change in their ad revenues.
We can only hope.

[Common Tator]

AS I see it the newspaper people are into a self fulfilling prophesy. Nearly every day for the last year they have printed stories about recession, decreased retail sales, and reduced consumer confidance in the economy. If they keep it up for a few more months they may be able to drive this economy down tot he point where most of the reporters and editors lose their jobs. Media people think they are immune from the economic diseases they try their best to create when a Republican is in office. It is amazing how ignorant of economics the most editors and reporters are. They think people have to buy papers.. at least to look at the help wanted ads. The truth is the advertisers have cut advertising a lot.. but sales are only down a little. Newspapers try to cover the cost of printing and delivery with subscription money. The cost of producing the paper is born by advertising. When both go down, they can't avoid losing money. And the problem is they can only cut personel costs.

The fewer reporters the more wire copy they have to run. The more they depend on the wire services for news the fewer local stories get covrered and there is less local interest in the paper. Thus the circulation goes down producing further cuts in reporting, resulting in fewer readers, resulting in further cuts.

The problem with the internet solution is while there are usually only one or perhaps two papers in a large city, but there are thouands of internet sites to choose from. Getting anywhere near the the number of viewers to an internet site that a big city paper reaches is next to impossible.