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1 posted on 05/04/2008 4:17:04 AM PDT by abb
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2 posted on 05/04/2008 4:17:34 AM PDT by abb (Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
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Aw gee, now why does my coffee taste sweeter all the sudden?

As FReepers we've read endless excerpts from this paper to know the folks who run it are definitive of the concept of "open treason". Sure, they'll slither off and find new outlets to express their hatred of our nation, but there will be one less voice signing in the "Red Choir". And that's always good news...

Cheers!

4 posted on 05/04/2008 4:23:55 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Why are you so obsessed with the demise of print media?


5 posted on 05/04/2008 4:27:38 AM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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One by one. CBS, NBC, ABC to follow!


6 posted on 05/04/2008 4:28:53 AM PDT by fweingart (It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in!)
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“After Avista bought the company, the firm’s partner, OhSang Kwon, was quoted in the paper as saying that Minneapolis-St. Paul was a “good market” and that “this is a good time to be buying newspapers.””

OhSang Kwon is also eyeing big investments in the steam engine, the telegraph and the camera film industries.


10 posted on 05/04/2008 4:45:11 AM PDT by frankjr
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I will repeat my prediction:

Within two years, Dimocrats will propose federal funding of the dinosaur media.

14 posted on 05/04/2008 4:54:10 AM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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Just goes to show that Liberalism wil get you nowhere.

Schadenfreude.


15 posted on 05/04/2008 4:54:45 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa
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To: abb

If enough newspapers start going belly-up, where will FR get its news to discuss?


17 posted on 05/04/2008 4:56:04 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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Couldn't happen to a more deserving paper....

Maybe if you wrote unbiased news, it would circulate more....

19 posted on 05/04/2008 4:56:53 AM PDT by Maigrey (Fat makes the World Taste Better! - personal motto)
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No one in Minnesota with an ounce of brains pays any attention to the Strib anymore. Even the letters to the Editor show that only liberals are reading it. I see this paper occasionally when I fill-in at the local clinic, and ti amazes me what the readers are thinking. They are all left wing loonies.

I think maybe the paper receives about 1-2 conservative leters per month, and usually in support of Katherine Kerstien, who write good oped pieces.


20 posted on 05/04/2008 4:57:07 AM PDT by Gumdrop
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Not only do I despise the MSM, but it also gives me a chuckle when I read stories about investment firms losing their equity holdings. They are simply, utterly clueless as to how the information business has transitioned to the 'Net.

Before anyone invests one penny, they should research what Reuters is doing. It's nothing more than a more sophisticated version of FR. With news as a commodity, the value proposition is context & analysis: exactly what one gets reading FR with insider views and external links to further information.

Of course, just because Reuters sees what's happening doesn't mean that they can avoid the same fate. Read some of the reader comments which suggest that information streaming + analytical tools are also subject to low cost, open source technologies.

24 posted on 05/04/2008 5:14:21 AM PDT by semantic
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“I celebrate their demise vociferously.”

Yea! That too!


34 posted on 05/04/2008 6:10:59 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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I still have in the attic, a nearly new, bright yellow "Minneapolis Star and Tribune" newspaper delivery bag from the 50's, that I proudly hung from the back of my Schwinn single speed bike when the snow wasn't too deep to ride it. It is nearly new, since I wore out many others on my delivery route. Much of the basis for my current belief in the American Free Enterprise system came from the on hands experience I gained from those years of delivering, selling, and collecting for the papers.

That being said, none of the basis for my belief in the American Free Enterprise system came from the words written on that paper. Any one want to buy a bag?

37 posted on 05/04/2008 6:47:24 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Planting trees to offset carbon emissions is like drinking water to offset rising ocean levels)
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Like I've said too many times earlier, Alvin Toffler's world of de-massified media he predicted way back in 1979 has become 2008 reality--and the newspapers and newsmagazines aren't liking it AT ALL. Remember how the webmaster of Deadspin.com got a nasty treatment on that HBO special just four days ago?
39 posted on 05/04/2008 7:05:52 AM PDT by RayChuang88
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No doubt like the worst paper in the nation the Chicago Trib it hates its readers, and it hires affirmative action flunkies to basically write the “old white devil” crap they all learned in college.


46 posted on 05/04/2008 7:46:58 AM PDT by junta (It's Poltical Correctness stupid! Hold liberals accountable for their actions, a new idea.)
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Is this a competitor to the Pioneer Press there?


51 posted on 05/04/2008 8:56:24 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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bump


59 posted on 05/04/2008 10:06:51 AM PDT by VOA
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I wonder how long the Tribune is going to be able to keep its feet above water.


64 posted on 05/04/2008 1:15:06 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of Commie propagandists.


68 posted on 05/04/2008 5:39:14 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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