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I would much rather the Cincy Enquirer shut down, but I'll take this one. The Enquirer's day is coming.
1 posted on 12/31/2007 6:52:31 AM PST by abb
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2 posted on 12/31/2007 6:52:52 AM PST by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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“Goodnight Chet...Goodnight Dave...”


5 posted on 12/31/2007 6:55:30 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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roadkill


6 posted on 12/31/2007 6:57:57 AM PST by wattsmag2
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In the newsroom of The Cincinnati Post, neither Champagne corks nor beer can tabs will be popping on Monday after the paper is put to bed — and not just because of a ban on alcohol that day.

Well, maybe that's part of their problem.

7 posted on 12/31/2007 6:58:05 AM PST by neodad (USS Wabash (AOR 5) The Wabash Cannonball)
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When I was a kid in the 60’s my Dad would send me down to the store every afternoon to pick up the afternoon edition of the Boston Globe.”Make sure it says ‘closing stocks’ on it”,he’d say.Boston hasn’t had an afternoon paper in at least 30 years.


8 posted on 12/31/2007 6:59:17 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Wanna see how bad it can get? Elect Hillary and find out.)
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Bye bye. It was “The Post and Times Star” in my youth...


10 posted on 12/31/2007 7:02:54 AM PST by LRS (It's time to put Hillary on the 3:10 to Yuma...)
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I live in Cincinnati and have never read the Post. I did not even know it was still in circulation. Sixty years ago, there were 13 newspapers in Cincinnati, four in German.


11 posted on 12/31/2007 7:07:01 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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This is horrible! A ban on alcohol!


12 posted on 12/31/2007 7:08:33 AM PST by Paul Heinzman
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BTW- I usually stop by at their online site and read the sports almost daily. Today’s Lonnie Wheeler sports column starts thusly:


As the buzzer sounds . . .

At the time of its first edition, which was 1881, the newspaper didn’t need sports, obviously. In Ohio’s largest city, there weren’t any to speak of. Basketball was 10 years shy of being invented. The local schools hadn’t yet connected education to football. And for the first (and still only) time since the National League was founded in
1876, Cincinnati was bereft of professional baseball.

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=SPT


13 posted on 12/31/2007 7:09:00 AM PST by LRS (It's time to put Hillary on the 3:10 to Yuma...)
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I still miss the Dallas Times Herald!


14 posted on 12/31/2007 7:38:17 AM PST by altura (Go, Fred!)
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The Enquirer is a better paper than the Post (formerly Post and Times-Star) but not by all that much anymore. As the Enquirer moved from its traditional position, there was no niche for the Post.

Still, I'm sorry to see it go. Perhaps Anschutz will add Cincinnati to his chain of Examiner newspapers.

15 posted on 12/31/2007 7:56:08 AM PST by TBP
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The Enquirer is a better paper than the Post (formerly Post and Times-Star) but not by all that much anymore. As the Enquirer moved from its traditional position, there was no niche for the Post.

Still, I'm sorry to see it go. Perhaps Anschutz will add Cincinnati to his chain of Examiner newspapers.

16 posted on 12/31/2007 7:58:18 AM PST by TBP
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I always liked the post better. I will miss good coverage of KY high school sports.


17 posted on 12/31/2007 8:04:18 AM PST by bondo21d
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I really wish you’d stop posting this garbage. It’s childish wishful thinking. It’s more influental and powerful than ever


18 posted on 12/31/2007 8:09:19 AM PST by NYC Republican
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All you’re doing is showing joy at lost jobs


20 posted on 12/31/2007 8:19:12 AM PST by NYC Republican
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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.


22 posted on 12/31/2007 8:31:43 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!"- Jim Robinson, Sept, 30, 2007)
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25 posted on 12/31/2007 9:01:00 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!"- Jim Robinson, Sept, 30, 2007)
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Trees everywhere applaud this move.


26 posted on 12/31/2007 9:54:05 AM PST by MovementConservative (Terminate the Duke 88)
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The papers’ 52 employees were given severance packages, but only one, Kerry Duke, the special projects editor, was offered another job within the company...

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.

27 posted on 12/31/2007 9:59:07 AM PST by MovementConservative (Terminate the Duke 88)
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Fewer than 10 cities still have two or more daily newspapers, and Cincinnati was the last two-paper town in Ohio

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.

28 posted on 12/31/2007 6:41:00 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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