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WTH is "voluntary redundancy"?
It is interesting that the two newspapers I still read with any regularity are both still making money.
The Wall Street Journal has a splendid editorial page and newswriters who actually do original research and write informative articles. Even though I disagree vehemently with its radical "Open borders" stance, I still must admit that it is engaging and informative.
The same can be said for our local Pittsburgh area paper. Editorially, it often slides into Ron Paul style libertarian moonbatry. But there is balance and evidence of work on this paper. If I find a Tribune-Review laying around, I'll actually read it. The lieberal counterpart Pittsburgh Post Gazette is good for little more than lining a bird cage.
I for one would love to see Pinch standing on the street corner with a tin cup begging for quarters.
I really, really despise that leftist, commie, pinko, granola-loving, former hippie and limousine liberal.
"The New York Times ... circulation is ... down another 3.9%; ... advertising revenues are down ... 12.5% [and] Standard & Poor’s cut the firm’s debt rating to one notch above junk."
"Industry experts such as Lauren Rich Fine of Kent State University do not think that the Times is responding forcefully enough. “Now is the time to beef up its business section,” she says. "
Watching the NY Times slowly sink is like watching a hated foe go down with his ship. What a pleasure.
As for the academic's comment, she is oblivious to one thing. I haven't paid a nickel for a NY Times for the past 20 years. Nor for the LA Times. Why? Because I never want to be a single tick in their circulation numbers. NOT ONE SINGLE TICK. I presume that there are at least another 100 million Americans who feel as I do, and hopefully our long boycott contributes to the drama we see unfolding.
http://sbdailysound.blogspot.com/2008/05/mccaw-hands-out-pink-slips.html
Thursday, May 1, 2008
McCaw hands out pink slips
BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
In an action dubbed a “company wide reorganization,” the Santa Barbara News-Press laid off 10 employees yesterday, two of whom were editors.
An internal memo circulated to News-Press employees said the layoffs were the result of declines in circulation, advertising revenue, and a contentious labor dispute between current and former newsroom staff and the paper’s management.
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Stock up on birdcage liner now while you still can. If I had a bird, I’d make sure it sh*t on nothing but the NY Slimes.
Propagandists do not prosper
So do the NY Times, the Wash Post and the LA Times.
The venerable ones went extinct decades ago.
“Lady’s circulation is tumbling, down another 3.9% in the latest data from America’s Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). Its advertising revenues are down, too (12.5% lower in March than a year earlier),
I wonder how many people at the times still actually believe that there is something they can do that will turn the numbers around?
The population, especially the young, today is very poorly informed on all matters, especially national and international matters. They don't read much of anything except their call screens.
The “new media” is not utilized, for the most part, for enlightenment. Rather, it is utilized for entertainment and personal applications.
True, that the print media has itself to blame - particularly for ceasing to be a professional medium in which a truthful account of the day's news was sought with integrity and general professionalism.
News became “news analysis” in the 1970’s - reflecting the 60’s generation and the “investigative reporting” spotlight. News "analysis" on the news pages became nothing but opinion - usually skewed.
But anyone who has lived through the era up to the 1970’s knows that Americans used to be avid newspaper readers, that the papers were generally well-written, and that the readers were generally pretty well-informed about what was happening in the world.
The newspaper itself is not at fault, being actually something one can hold, save, and read in the subway. No thinking person should rejoice at the demise of the newspaper - whose obituary may be not as imminent as some think..
Print is dead. —Dr. Egon Spengler