Posted on 02/05/2009 10:56:09 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
This was the pot calling the kettle . . . broke. Talk about chutzpah, this was the journalistic equivalent of John Edwards and Eliot Spitzer co-authoring an advice book on how to stay faithful to your wife [foreword by Bill Clinton]. By its cover story this week, Time deigns to dole out advice to newspapers about how to save themselves. This from the same Time whose parent, Time Inc., just a few months ago announced massive layouts. Time Inc. is in turn owned by Time Warner, which just yesterday announced a fourth-quarter loss of . . . $16 billion.
Time editor Mark Halperin appeared on Morning Joe today to unveil the cover story, written by Walter Isaacson. The essence of the advice is apparently nothing very new: papers have to stop giving away their content and find a way to “monetize” it. Isaacson proposes a simplified iTunes system for doing so. Along the way, Halperin and Joe Scarborough took the obligatory shots at us Cheeto-stained wretches of the blogosphere.
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MSMers mocking bloggers ping to Today show list.
I order to sell a product, the product must be worth purchasing.
Their problem is that most of the stuff from the MSM is not worth purchasing.
Where do I sign up to pay for my extreme pro-Obama news? Haha shut up Halperin. Idiot.
Whenever the maroons talk about the vaunted MSM they always say that’s it’s respected “worldwide” never respected “nationwide”
Guess that’s why their profits are in the toilet — their market is Gaza & France
Oh, how I wish the News Media would print/publish the NEWS.
And not their own opinion, agenda, wishful-thinking.
Remember when reporting would simply pass on: who/what/when/where. . . . .???
What a concept.
I just don't see how newspapers can survive in their current form.
“JOE SCARBOROUGH: If we don’t have investigative reporters at the Wall Street Journal, at the New York Times, at the Washington Post, that is a threat to democracy.”
I’m still waiting for the investigative reports on 0’s missing records:
Occidental College records
Columbia College records
Columbia Thesis paper
Harvard College records
Selective Service Registration
Medical records
Illinois State Senate records
Illinois State Senate schedule
Law practice client list
A Certified Copy of your original Birth certificate
Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth
Harvard Law Review articles that were published
University of Chicago scholarly articles
Record of baptism
>> In order to sell a product, the product must be worth purchasing.
Their product is OK, they’re just failing to market it correctly.
I have never found anything more cost effective than newspaper for lining a bird cage or protecting my garage floor and workbench during messy shop work.
And wadded up newspaper plus Windex is great for getting that home ‘n auto glass clean and free of streaks and paper towel lint.
Only problem is the ink... maybe they should just roll up blank sheets and toss that in the driveway. I might get a sunday-only subscription if they did that! I guess they could print the funnies...
their market is Gaza & France
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Just read a story about how the French government is planning a massive bail-out of their national newspapers. Seems they don’t even read their OWN newspapers.
But then, I was so disappointed in Joe when he didn't say: well, maybe if the print MSM tried to be a bit more even-handed, they'd have more readers.
What garbage...
I find it amusing Halperin is admitting what he and others like him fear the most.
The replacement of the dinosaur media by ‘alternative news coverage’.
Quite a remarkable, if inadvertent, admission when you think about it.
Ah, I stand corrected. Those ‘investigative journalists’ were side-tracked by other “threats to democracy;” Troupergate, Trig, and what Sarah was wearing.
“Troupergate, Trig, and what Sarah was wearing.”
Exactly. The important stuff ;-)
Don’t sell newspapers short. Other uses for newspapers:
* Papier-mâché craft projects;
* Starting wood or charcoal fires;
* Roll-up fireplace “logs”.
I'd be happy with the TRUTH!
Yes, “Front page”
has been replaced by
didactic rage.
“Think like we tell you, or we’ll show you; we’ll elect an empty suit.”
And on the tube and in the print media as well. Did they have a point?
Yeah but advertising flyers do the same thing and are usually more colourful as well.
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