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Collector's Edition (San Jose Mercury News Floundering, Losing Circulation)
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| 12.15.04
Posted on 12/16/2004 2:15:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
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The Mercury News' ad-to-content ratio is just above the level needed to qualify as a newspaper.
To: Canticle_of_Deborah; Carry_Okie; NormsRevenge; martin_fierro; Hoplite; 2Fro; skeeter; ...
To: nickcarraway
Well, compared to the San Francisco Chronicle - which is nothing but a propaganda rag - it is my choice for buying a daily newspaper around the Bay area. Plus, the newstand price is just 25 cents as opposed to the higher priced Chronicle.
The Bay area also has numerous free newspapers that pose significant competition.
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:18:17 PM PST
by
glorgau
To: nickcarraway
Problem with the Merc is for the past 20 years they've been catering to a market that doesn't read english language publications.
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:18:47 PM PST
by
skeeter
(OBL "Americans" won't honor any law that interferes with their pocketbooks)
To: nickcarraway
Tuesday's Home & Garden section will be cleverly renamed "How-to."Saves ink.
LOL
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:19:45 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Shrum's losing streak obscures the fact that he is also a swine.)
To: nickcarraway
no, no, no.. it's the SMerc....
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:20:50 PM PST
by
mumzie
(www.combatvetsagainstkerry.com)
To: nickcarraway
You have a right to free editions of the San Jose Mercury News! Don't buy it until they make it free.
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:21:41 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
( ----- HERTZ: We're #1 ----- AVIS: We're #2 We Try Harder ----- CBS: We're #3 We LIE Harder)
To: nickcarraway
San Jose is a floundering S***hole. Too close to San Francisco, I guess.
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:22:48 PM PST
by
pissant
To: skeeter
They Vietnamese and Spanish editions.
To: pissant
Starting January, every single member of San Jose City Council will be a Democrat.
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:26:33 PM PST
by
pissant
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:28:16 PM PST
by
Eddeche
To: nickcarraway
Really? That makes their editorial choices seem all the more strange.
Go ahead & call me nasty names, but I got sick & tired of having the Merc's idea of diversity shoved down my throat every-stinkin-day. Always front & center, below the fold. Many times above.
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:28:20 PM PST
by
skeeter
(OBL "Americans" won't honor any law that interferes with their pocketbooks)
To: skeeter
I guess you didn't like Sunday's paper, then.
To: skeeter
The argument used to be that newspapers are dying because they're too liberally biased. But here is a liberal newspaper that is failing even in an area where most of the people are liberal.
Newspapers are failing because they are OLD MEDIA and more people are getting their news from the internet. This would make sense since San Jose is in the middle of high tech land. Newspapers are over. Even a conservative newspaper couldn't make it in a conservative area.
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:31:13 PM PST
by
ZGuy
To: nickcarraway
I guess you didn't like Sunday's paper, then. I caught sight of Sunday's paper in a coffee shop, but averted my eyes before injesting any content.
Don't tell me - was it a story about Christmas in Ho Chi Min City?
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:35:16 PM PST
by
skeeter
(OBL "Americans" won't honor any law that interferes with their pocketbooks)
To: skeeter
It had a front page article with many sidebars about the impact of Asians on the area.
To: nickcarraway
I visited San Jose back in mid-October when they gave their ringing endorsement to Kerry. Not sure to what extent that reflected the sentiment of their readers ... but, as someone who is safely and smugly ensconced in Jesusland, it was a major turn off to me.
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:38:10 PM PST
by
BluH2o
To: nickcarraway
I like the Mercury News for running a several-art article on the wasteful spending of the Sierra Club, whose execs make incredible salaries and ride around in limos. Plus,plus. The nicked it Club Sierra.
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:41:28 PM PST
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
To: nickcarraway
Bwahahaha! Even with a largely Leftist market area, they STILL can't make the grade! What a freakin' rag. BTW - I actually had a SJ News route back before they merged the two together. How times have changed. Back then, the SJ News was actually considered a Right Wing paper! Oh my, now I am dating my self. "Sonny, back in my day, we walked 10 miles to school in raging blizzards! ... " ;)
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posted on
12/16/2004 2:46:58 PM PST
by
GOP_1900AD
(Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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