Of course, this is only part of the problem, the other is that technology is not their friend. People don't need to buy a paper anymore. What's that saying ... adapt or die?
The only people to blame are standing in the mirror in the bathroom of the paper. Lies don’t sell forever.
Why pay to read 5500 words on Barrys’ love of basketball?
An increasing majority of consumers are sick of the liberal echo chamber. Period.
An increasing majority of consumers are sick of the liberal echo chamber. Period.
Being a left-wing, Commie rag, the Guardian would never print a story that exposes the bias of the Washington Post at the cause of its demise.
So what is sad about another commie rag going down the tubes?
Advice to the Post: concentrate on absorbency; it’s all you have left.
Wall Street doesn’t influence the way liberal editors run their newsrooms.
The ever declining base in print and television news is commercial suicide but the die-hard Lefties continue to push PURE propaganda and the public knows it.
SAD decline? Hardy har, har.
Maybe they could bring in Bain Capital to make it profitable?
If they had done things the “Wall Street” way, they wouldn’t be a dying newspaper or corporation.
The Wall Street way if the “free market” way, which means that, the corporation caters to the wishes of the people who are the target audience, but, when half of the target audience is automatically and intentionally disregarded and alienated, then, the newspaper will, of course, be writing it’s own death certificate.
Years ago I got the Washington Post Weekly,
Then for two weeks running there was about a ten page insert explaining the damned virtues of Saudi Arabia, paid for by said govt.
There are NO virtues in regards Saudi Arabia. I understood then that the post had simply become a whore.
One is the Wall Street beef the way the overarching Post company, to which the news division only makes an 11% or so revenue contribution, has paid out $1.1bn in dividends and share buyback schemes over the past four years of the credit crunch. This bigger Post, owner of a profitable education operation, could have used some or all of that money to keep the newspaper fed and watered.
Yeah, the *nerve* of the parent corporation to expect a profit from the noble WaPo. They just don't understand news organizations are supposed to be losers (they're something bad if they make a buck), and they need to be subsidized for "the good of the people."
It can't be that the country is sick of the liberal dreck or anything.
Look forward to the day when the propaganda post is out of business.
The print media will go the way of the buggy whip. 89% of the newspapers’ revenue comes from advertisement. The sale of newspapers brings in very little income. Is it worth even charging for the newspapers?
this article is just a thinly disguised call for government subsidies and regulations to hobble online competition.
The cost of air fare to Wasilla must have really increased.
“...these battles are being fought out between the quasi-academic likes of the Columbia Journalism Review and Professor Clay Shirky of New York University, the supreme guru of internet ideology. But first catch up with some facts.”
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Clay Shirky? What a jerk... check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFOmUXR080
THAT is the reason why newspapers are dying. Why wait for "stale" news once a day on print when I can get the latest news on my iPad from Facebook, Twitter, the iOS iPad apps for BBC News, CNN, Fox News, and USA Today, many different news websites, and conservative web sites like Townhall.com? (It should be noted I read Free Republic on a real computer, since its interactivity works best that way.)