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1 posted on 09/26/2005 7:32:19 AM PDT by LdSentinal
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After the cuts were announced in Philadelphia, Walker Lundy, the former editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, told National Public Radio that newspaper companies "are eating their seed corn."

Let's hope so.

2 posted on 09/26/2005 7:34:17 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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Knee jerk liberal rag. I get this paper only for the crossword puzzle and sports page. They are sinking themselves for their slanted news coverage.


3 posted on 09/26/2005 7:37:19 AM PDT by vets son
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The "seed corn" is no good. They need to switch seed supply houses, so they may as well throw out the seed corn. (lefty- marxist trained moonbats)


4 posted on 09/26/2005 7:38:20 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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Hopefully the Salt Lake Tribune will soon have the same thing happen.


5 posted on 09/26/2005 7:38:36 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Modernist American Art in the West)
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More good news from the war front to save America from the socialist/terrorist coalition.

The MSM still hasn't figured out that the real polls are supplied by the American people who vote with their pocketbook.........


7 posted on 09/26/2005 7:40:25 AM PDT by federal
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Can't make payroll?
Try the truth!

8 posted on 09/26/2005 7:40:40 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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I wonder if this is cyclical or if we're witnessing the death of the big daily newspapers.


9 posted on 09/26/2005 7:41:05 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Nemo me impune lacessit)
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INDIA ??


13 posted on 09/26/2005 7:43:06 AM PDT by traumer
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That discharged journalistic talent can migrate over to the free-of-charge-movie-listing-massage-therapy rag Metro
14 posted on 09/26/2005 7:44:35 AM PDT by martin_fierro (|\/|4R71|\|_P|-|13RR0)
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After the cuts were announced in Philadelphia, Walker Lundy, the former editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, told National Public Radio that newspaper companies "are eating their seed corn."

More like their seed thistles.


16 posted on 09/26/2005 7:48:44 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (We need a strict constructionist - not someone who plays shadow puppet theater with the Constitution)
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I was watching a local DC news show with some big wig from the Washington Post on. They asked him to comment on the new writers for the gossip column and what's the difference between news and gossip.

His response: "I don't care, as long as it increases circulation"


17 posted on 09/26/2005 7:52:27 AM PDT by Hoodlum91
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Front page headline in the Mercury News:

Scores Lose Jobs At Mercury News

Minorities And Women Hardest Hit

18 posted on 09/26/2005 7:54:15 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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It's the evil newspaper CEOs wanting only to make a profit! Maybe they should examine their content (ie bias) to see if they could sell more papers.


19 posted on 09/26/2005 7:57:21 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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Gee, I can't imagine why their circulation would be down.

In the 'Family' section, the 'Family Man' refers to his wife/mother of his children as his 'parenting partner'(mother is non-pc). It was at that time I cancelled my subscription. He told me that 'parenting partner' was meant for people with a sense of humor.

In another column he talked about how moms who posed nude were just your typical suburban housewives and kids shouldn't feel stigmatized that their moms had hot bodies.

Another article gushed about how great it was that teenage girls can choose to experiment in lesbianism.

In their religious section they had an article about how a teenage girl rejected her family's religion,left her church and is exploring her spirituality.

In the 'home section they depict a lesbian couple as just another example of the 'typical' home buyer in Santa Clara County.

They routinely refer to President Bush as Bush or the Bush Whitehouse, yet always refer to former president Clinton as President.

I haven't paid for the paper in 3 years. I occasionally peruse my neighbor's copy when we're house-sitting just to see if anything's improved and it's still a piece of crap.


20 posted on 09/26/2005 8:23:17 AM PDT by TMD (Get Planned Parenthood out of our schools!)
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but the paper will survive

Whew!

For a minute there I thought that my distributor for toilet paper was going under.

21 posted on 09/26/2005 8:24:33 AM PDT by A2J (Love Jesus...hate "church")
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They have a news room, I thought it was all opinion.


22 posted on 09/26/2005 8:37:15 AM PDT by roylene
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Time was ony a few years ago, the Murky was less Leftie than the San Francisco Chronicle, which was falling down drunk with liberalism. The recent ownership change has pulled the Chron towards the center, though they have a long, long way to go.

Ten years ago, when the movie Apollo 13 came out, the reviewer said the movie was "a sloppy wet kiss to the era when white men with ties and pocket protectors could do anything", the writer was summarily fired by the Murky's publisher, because "half of our customers are engineers". I guess they've even lost that compass point...

25 posted on 09/26/2005 8:58:12 AM PDT by HolgerDansk ("Oh Bother", said Pooh, as he worked the bolt.)
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Who will be left to convert the DNC talking points into front page stories?


27 posted on 09/26/2005 12:49:10 PM PDT by Natural Law
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