Posted on 04/21/2020 9:06:47 AM PDT by Bruiser 10
As journalists across the US scramble to cover the impact of the coronavirus, they are grappling with a bitter irony: as demand for their stories soars, the decline of the business model that funds them is speeding up catastrophically.
The devastating sweep of Covid-19 is the biggest story in a generation, and for most newspapers and news sites it has triggered record numbers of readers. Yet the virus, industry experts warn, will spell the end for “hundreds” of those organizations, laying off journalists and closing titles. Coronavirus: the week explained - sign up for our email newsletter Read more
Media outlets across the US have already responded to a huge drop in advertising triggered by the economic shutdown by sacking scores of employees. Some newspapers, just as demand is at its highest, have stopped printing – reverting to a digital-only operation that is just as vulnerable to the whims of advertisers.
The decrease in advertising was swift, as businesses tightened spending due to the economic impact of Covid-19. For a journalism industry already barely scraping by, the impact was almost immediate.
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Bird cages hit hardest.
Me to MSM: Drop Dead.
Silver Lining
I suppose they could fill up the paper with fake anti-Trump polls, and fake anti-Trump editorials
Happens when they chose to print propaganda and not news.
There’s a lot of silver linings here. My personal hope is that the higher-education industrial complex is forced to reform itself also.
Denial is not just a river...
Oh What a SHAME
Girl Scouts not selling cookies to support leftist causes. Newspapers going broke.
Ok, so there is some good news. :)
Journalism is already dead in the USA. All this means is the corpse has stopped twitching.
I agree. Kurt Schlichter had a great column on this recently.
The “new normal” might not be exactly what Tiny Fancy and Hans Brix expect.
Our local paper has been great with local coronavirus coverage. I’m a loyal subscriber. Not perfect, as some articles are headlined with hyperbole, but they have a range of editorial views, so, ok.
“My personal hope is that the higher-education industrial complex is forced to reform itself also.”
I’m usually an optimist, but not about that. What I expect is that the largest indoctrination centers will survive, to seed a new generation of academies even worse than the ones that they replace.
How can they care about money & business when people are dying in the streets? How dare they!!! If it can save one life...shut it down. (role reversal mode)
My dad is a conservative, but refuses to join the 21st Century. He reads the newspaper....daily. He doesn’t care about ‘online’ anything.
Feel good post of the day. “Journalists”, welcome to the real world.
Guess we can all hang out here and read each other's vanities.
Thanks for the best good news of this morning!
There is actually a good market for real news but not so much of a market for propaganda.
Most of these rags exist to manipulate the public so they will go down with the ship.
They should learn to code.
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