Skip to comments.
Tough times for newspapers
ST ^
| 1-17-2009
| Bhagyashree Garekar
Posted on 01/17/2009 8:27:08 AM PST by lainie
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-47 next last
'The industry's revenue model is crumbling away. The readers followed the newspapers online, but the advertisers did not. What we saw in the past year was that the newspapers were no longer just slicing away some operations or staff, but have been amputating entire limbs.
1
posted on
01/17/2009 8:27:09 AM PST
by
lainie
2
posted on
01/17/2009 8:27:27 AM PST
by
lainie
(The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
To: lainie
Choke on it MSM. Justice is being served.
3
posted on
01/17/2009 8:28:11 AM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: EagleUSA
yep.
4
posted on
01/17/2009 8:29:18 AM PST
by
lainie
(The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
To: lainie
Ain’t that an awful, cryin shame?
5
posted on
01/17/2009 8:31:17 AM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
To: lainie
Just wondering. Seems like it is just the liberal rags that are in trouble.
6
posted on
01/17/2009 8:31:38 AM PST
by
mom-7
To: lainie
Softening up folks for the bailout.
7
posted on
01/17/2009 8:31:50 AM PST
by
Carl LaFong
(Building Code Under Fire)
To: lainie
Let’s bail them out! Why not?
8
posted on
01/17/2009 8:31:56 AM PST
by
Pantera
To: lainie
The readers followed the newspapers online, but the advertisers did not. A tactical victory for conservatism.
A strategic victory for liberalism.
America is becoming more and more illiterate, and the stories now have to be told in two paragraphs or less. Conservative papers are losing readership faster than liberal ones (e.g., The Washington Times vs. The Washington Post), and voters turned to sound bites and faux-news (e.g., The Daily Show) for their information.
With newspapers declining, the republic will follow.
9
posted on
01/17/2009 8:33:00 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: mom-7
Just wondering. Seems like it is just the liberal rags that are in trouble. Actually, it's conservative papers going first. E.g., look at Cincy, Denver, etc.
Also, many small conservative papers have already gone down, with readers trasferring to large liberal papers.
10
posted on
01/17/2009 8:34:21 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Pantera
It’s being done in some cases (e.g., the former JRC papers in CT).
11
posted on
01/17/2009 8:34:51 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: lainie
In one obvious sign of distress, the paper breached its own code earlier this month when it began accepting advertisements on its front page for the first time in its 157-year-old historyThe old grey whore reveals her true colors.
To: lainie
I want the New York Times and the rest of the Democrat newsrooms to suffer and die, and I want everybody associated with them to lose their jobs, their homes, and their families. For the damage they have done to this nation they deserve nothing less.
To: lainie
Finally, some good news from the news industry.
To: abb
schadenfreud ping
15
posted on
01/17/2009 8:37:52 AM PST
by
frithguild
(Can I drill your head now?)
To: lainie
Conservatives ought to buy them and bring REAL change!
;-))
16
posted on
01/17/2009 8:37:52 AM PST
by
SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
To: EagleUSA
Choke on it MSM. Justice is being served. ******************
MSM: The Great American Prostitute
"All sold out..."
17
posted on
01/17/2009 8:39:40 AM PST
by
Wings-n-Wind
(The main things are the plain things!)
To: lainie
The NY Times is running out of cash and will have to cut 40-50% of their staff by April-May to forestall bankruptcy.
Even Obama The Kenyan knows that the NY Times is going to have a bloodbath in the Spring and is distancing himself from the situation.
The tidal wave of NYT pinkslips are coming soon.
18
posted on
01/17/2009 8:40:06 AM PST
by
jimbo123
To: lainie
19
posted on
01/17/2009 8:46:52 AM PST
by
fleagle
( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill)
From two days ago
Newspapers Move to Outsource Foreign Coverage [WSJ]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123197973917183829.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Two major newspapers publishers are taking steps to outsource international coverage, as falling revenue is causing more U.S. papers to shrink their foreign and national footprint.
Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, is in talks with the Washington Post Co. about a deal to pay the Post for foreign and national coverage for Tribune's eight major dailies. Meantime, the New York Daily News has reached an agreement with a Boston-based start-up called GlobalPost to use the company's network of part-time foreign correspondents.
Together, the agreements could substantially overhaul the foreign news operations of three of the 10 largest U.S. newspapers.
20
posted on
01/17/2009 8:59:13 AM PST
by
lainie
(The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-47 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson