[abb]

More news on the demise of the ToM (Tired old Media)

[Buffettfan]

The OSM (old stream media) is history (liberal print rags) and they know it.

[bert]

Well FReepers..... put your money where your mouth is.

How much can we raise to buy Knight Ridder?

[hsalaw]

"ToM (Tired old Media)"

I LIKE it!

[Esther Ruth]

Was going to pick up a Sunday Chicago Trib today because all the Christmas sale papers are in it, I think, if I remember right. Haven't gotten a paper for a zillion years. My 8 year old daughters says "what's in a newspaper mom?"

[TomGuy]

Well, somebody needs to buy it!

What will we do for fish wrap? And how will we line the bottoms of birdcages?

This could be tragic!!!!

[Joe Boucher]

You just can't trust what the m.s.m says. Add to that you are led by the nose by liberal anti bush anti American writers pushing the gay&lesbian,prochoice,antimilitary,crap.
So you just don't purchase the Times or Post or the local little town rag anymore.

[frankjr]

Knight Ridder?

[skinkinthegrass]

With high-speed broadband and wireless access now a fact for most Americans, consumers are no longer at the mercy of second-rate information providers...More news on the demise of the ToM (Tired old Media :)

ToM is the right description of The Lexington Hearld-(mis)Leader, It isn't worth a Tinkers' D@mn.

[okie01]

The Knight Ridder papers are Exhibit A when it comes to "a bad idea, done poorly (and cheaply)".

It is a chain full of papers that richly deserve to die.

[Gritty]

This is terrible.

What shall we now do for something useless and eminently disposable to put under our cat-litter boxes, especially when we enjoy the heck out of doing it?

[Dont Mention the War]

Its strategy has been straightforward: Leverage de facto monopoly newspaper status in individual cities into ownership of the classified advertising business in those communities.

How does this differ from Gannett's strategy?

[LdSentinal]

Come on Rupert. Buy these papers and turn them around like you did with the NY Post.

[Tribune7]

Nobody-reads-the-Inquirer ping

[sittnick]

When I was a youngster ('70's), I was a paperboy, and I eagerly read the comics in the Morning Record and New Haven Register (afternoon). Sometimes I would even buy the best SUnday comics in the universe, the Sunday Boston Herald. As I got older, I started reading the editorials, sports, and news sections.

Now, I have my own children, and the comics section is not fit reading. Even family strips like "For Better or Worse" explore topics (shacking up and homosexuality) that I will not be exposing my children to, and certainly without their slant. The regular news section and especially the "lifestyle" type sections are not fit to have around children, either. I haven't subscribed to a newspaper in ten years (after having TWO separate subscriptions). The odds of any of my children subscribing to the local newspapers when full-grown is next to nil. I am sure I am not alone.

[IronJack]

The stockholders at these creaky old papers need to raise hell. Newspapers are a tough enough sell in these days of illiteracy without the editorial staff making it even harder by embracing a worn-out, discredited ideology. Publishers need to hold their senior editors to account, and those editors need to reinstate the time-tested values of objectivity, detachment, and "news you can use" instead of "news that uses you."

[SteveH]

In Silicon Valley a skyscraper was put up with the Knight-Ridder logo on the top around 2000. A couple of years ago, the logo was removed. Perhaps K-R overbuilt during the dot com boom...

[Waco]

Minus the comics and the crosswords, most papers would fail within 6 mo. They vastly overrate themselves in the propaganda dept. actually.

[sionnsar]

Suggestion: Faced with the inevitable sales of the Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer (what follows the loss of intelligence? you'll find it here) -- don't buy. I wouldn't buy fish wrapped in this stuff (too toxic), and if I had birds I wouldn't line their cages with it. I don't even honor it as woodstove lighter; when they trash my newspaper with a "sample" it goes straight to landfill. Unopened.

When I want to read fiction I buy a novel. Not a newspaper.

[Lancey Howard]

These folks at Knight Ridder are smart to want to bail while they still may get some value. The question is, who's the sucker who will BUY?? (Caveat: Possibly Murdoch or somebody like him can come along and get rid of all the liberal deadwood in the newsrooms and editorial boards and actually boost circulation.)

[Falconspeed]

classified advertising business

90% of the newspapers available at the newstand are in the business of selling ads. Thus, 90% of the newpapers attract low budget writers and close minded thinkers. Yes, newpapers will always be around and will always be a waste of money for both owners and customers.