... for some mysterious reason, their readers are deserting them in droves!
Posted on 05/24/2015 3:45:34 PM PDT by Zakeet
The demise of big city print media, displayed in full by the painfully slow sale of the mammoth New York Daily News, is going nationwide as ad sales decline 50 percent and circulation plummets, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis
According to their report, "The Declining Value Of U.S. Newspapers," just three different media companies in 2014 alone decided to dump more than 100 newspaper properties. Pew said the companies spun off the money-losing properties "in large part to protect their still-robust broadcast or digital divisions."
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... for some mysterious reason, their readers are deserting them in droves!
A conservative with deep pockets could make a fortune turning these into conservative papers, even if only as on-line versions.
Before TV, everyone read the newspaper faithfully.
Sounds like we might be in the 21st century.
It’s probably been 40 years since I subscribed to a daily newspaper.
Now, why bother? The Internet is here! :)
Dinosaur Media Death WatchTM
Bottom line, why buy some lib rag for news when all the news in the world is available on the internet. Not to mention you don’t have to support lib editorial writers.
It’s the Internet age. Who reads newspapers? If so .... why? Haven’t looked at a newspaper in years.
I need to call up some of my old editor/publisher acquaintances that told me I was nuts for telling them they would either adapt or die. They knew better.
Of course they were the only group of people in the world that didn’t see how obvious a reality that was so it wasn’t some act of visionary brilliance on my part. But it does show you how the people most on board with the doctrine of CHANGE are the most unwilling to actually do it themselves.
Wow. Good news.
And, I didn’t read it in the newspaper.
Some papers have set up pay walls on the internet so you have to pay to read their news online . but so much on the internet is free, is it really worth it to pay to read online???
What am I going to crap on?
To quote the famous FReeper Doctor Raul
BIAS = Layoffs
They will never give up on the liberal agenda, no matter what it costs them.
“Before TV, everyone read the newspaper faithfully.”
It’s the internet that killed newspapers, not TV. I grew up with TV and I bought and read the newspaper every day. I know I was still doing it after 9/11/01.
Don’t really know when I stopped. But they a. got too expensive, b. they were always liberal rags, but what finished it off was c. the internet.
Working in print media must feel like the old photo film processing jobs. Remember those places? Or phone booths?
Along the same line, paper mills are getting far smaller, but large scale logging continues. Now we just load our forests into ships for China so they can make cardboard boxes to ship goods back to us.
Great news......
I would, if they weren’t so blatantly liberal in their entendres and usage of adjectives and so on.
Our local “good” paper died a couple decades ago, while liberal Balto. Sun continues....and I won’t buy it.
If they could be truly objective, and not inject editorializing into every story, I would buy them.
The liberalism is what really does it for them. The ‘net just finishes it off, but it wouldn’t be so bad if they were not so obviously biased.
Bye newspapers...see you never..
That’s part of it, the other part is that some people converted over to online electronic newspapers, such as I did with my newspapers, except for one, which I like to recycle as a number of items including a fire starter for my charcoal grill or summer camping trips.
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