Posted on 12/31/2007 6:52:28 AM PST by abb
You are correct. Any time anyone in the DriveBy Media loses his/her job, that is good news. They are now free to become productive US citizens instead of daily conspiring to degrade our country and its culture.
Starting about a week ago, AT&T Yahoo’s mail page at the top has icons across the top that will drive another wooden stake into the dinosaur fish wraps.
You can click icons from free samples to coupons and other offers that used to be advertised in the fishwraps.
Our local fishwrap is now mailing out a special classified ad section with multi color ad inserts for major advertisers from Walmart to local businesses. I guess the subscription #’s are falling, and they are using this process to get the ads out.
Our son and DIL’s local fishwrap started doing this a couple of years ago. Now there is no local newspaper in their area that can be subscribed to. The local newspaper is now a free weekly and is mailed out for free with ads. It arrives on Friday. As noted before in other replies, no one on their cul de sac buys/subscribes to the local or county fishwraps or the San Francisco Gay Rhonicle.
The new homes in their area come wired for satellite. If homeowners want cable, they have to request it. Cable buyers usually drop after a year of price increases after the sucker buy in period.
So in this rather large and fast growing surbanian area, there is no real MSM impact any more. GW easily carried their zipcode and the surrounding ones in 2004.
I call it progress, Dave. Aren’t we fortunate the Lord let us live long enough to see at least the beginning of the end of the Drive-By Media?
I’m 69, and what reality has done to the MSM, the elite Mediots who own the MSM and their lying mediots, who get a pay check from them in the past 7 years is unbelievable.
Our grandchildren love to read, and they have no interest in our local fishwrap. When I was my grand daughter’s age, 8, I read every fishwrap I could get my hands on.
My eye doc, who is 41, doesn’t allow any fishwraps, Newsweak, Slime or similiar magazines in any of his 3 offices. He says that he is not a Lone Ranger when it comes to keeping out the liberal trash.
My wife works in a nice 4 building medical complex. Last year the delivery person, who delivered the unscribed San Francisco Gay Rhonicles and NY Slimes started dropping them in the main entrance. No one would pick them up except for the week yard guys. They complained and one of the doctors threated the delivery service with a littering charge. Now none of that waste of paper comes into the complex. There was one older old time democrat doc who put Slime and Newsweak in his office (free subscriptions). He retired last year, and his replacement has his receptionist through them away.
Trees everywhere applaud this move.
51 journalists hitting the streets. Tough time to be a journalism grad looking for work. The good ones will land on their feet, the rest will become social workers or county corrections workers.
In the fifties Cleveland had three--The Plain Dealer in the morning, The Cleveland News at noon and The Cleveland Press in the afternoon. The Press bought out The News in the 60's and then years later folded, leaving the PD which I believe is now a McClatchy paper. It's not doing real well, although probably not on the death watch yet.
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