Posted on 07/05/2004 7:08:45 AM PDT by Pikamax
I get phone calls all the time from the local liberal rag offerning three months free to sign up. I told them you couldn't get me to read your paper for free.
why am I not surprised?
Great post. If the owners, publishers and editors of newspapers are looking for scapegoats for their declining circulation and revenues, a trip to Wal-Mart for a box of mirrors would be a good start. But, alas, the twin mainstays of liberal philosophy, sanctimony and self righteousness, will prevent any honest examination of the issues before them.
These inflated numbers are nothing short of FRAUD. The executives involved should be indicted and persued with the same vengence as Enron executives. A class action suit should be brought.
Why buy a paper if I can READ IT FOR FREEE on the 'net?
What he means is he called the AD BUYERS at agencies that were willing dupes for years and asked them if they would not mind continuing to get inflated fees for selling ads nobody sees.
Bump.
These papers function in two dimensions, business, i.e., high revenue/profits to low revenue/profits and editorial leaning, i.e., ultra-left wing to left wing. They believe that the two vairables are independent and that their editorial excesses don't influence their business.
A good example is the Dallas Morning News. They just had a reader survey to fine tune the comics on the 4 pages they ran every day. The results were that they got rid of enough (while making many smaller) to reduce the comics to three pages. They kept, however, this black racist strip, whatever it's called, despite the fact that it is hated, at least by most white readers. The DMN went furthe than Newsday; the DMN pretended to want reader input and then ignored it to met it's editorial agenda.
Will it effect business? We'll see. The DMN hasn't yet commented on the accuracy of circulation figures.
What about the figures on Hillary's and Bill's book sales? If they are involved in any way in anything, something fishy is going on.
So, I say, let 'em continue to keep their head in the sand and ignore the 90% of America that lives between New York and LA. By the time they realize what hit 'em it'll be too late.
They were warned with the elections of '00 and '02. One more landslide might finish the job.
Our local rag, the Cincinnati Enquirer, has lost my loyalty. I think it started with the loss of an outdoors column. Note to staff: Lawn bowling is *NOT* an "outdoorsman" type activity! The paper has no local writers except for the feel good pablum of the metro section. I can see 99% of the stories on the 'net about 12 hours before the Enquirer prints them. The automotive section has been "dumbed" down to appeal to young women(Yes, I said it and I'm glad! It needed to be said...). The management hasn't been the same since the Enquirer decided to do a hit piece on a local billionaire and fumbled so badly that they won't recover. Mr. Bronson, I know you see Free Republic. Save yourself while there's still time :^)
Most of the "readers" of the LA and MY Times can't read. They have ADD---which is a liberal disease.
I know your being semi facetious BUT it has a ring of truth - sadly.
Prior to the new ownership of the Chicago Sun-Times, it used to be called by the locals as the Chicago Slum-Times as you'd never see a four syllable word in any article. And they tried like heck to avoid a three syllable word.
The paper really was for dummies. Or as 'Da Mare' Richie Daley would say - constituents. LOL
I've noticed that when traveling. Local newspapers use so much wire copy, it's appalling. Part of the reason I try to buy a city paper when traveling, as opposed to just picking up a USA Today, is to get a sense of the local flavor. There isn't very much, unless you consider AP the hometown reporters!
And forget about getting even a small report on an out-of-town baseball game; you'll be lucky to even get the score. New York City is an exception to this, as the vast majority of the stories in all the papers here are staff-written, and you get much better sports coverage.
Ya think? </sarcasm>
I hope all these scumbag Democrat newspapers will just hurry up and DIE.
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