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To: Landru

The only way newspapers have been able to stay afloat is by cutting head count. This past quarter saw a big decline in the cost of newsprint, which is a significant cost item.

Cutting head count can only go so far - at some point you will not have the people to physically do all that is required to publish a print product.

At any rate, as circulation declines, there is a corresponding decline in influence.


14 posted on 10/19/2009 7:00:56 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb
"The only way newspapers have been able to stay afloat is by cutting head count. This past quarter saw a big decline in the cost of newsprint, which is a significant cost item."

No doubt, I clearly recall working the "dock area" at The Milwaukee Journal on The Sentinel side & watching the flatbeds come in loaded with enormous rolls of newsprint stock ready to be offloaded into the feeders.
Even in those years that material couldn't have been "cheap", today it has to be outrageous.

"Cutting head count can only go so far - at some point you will not have the people to physically do all that is required to publish a print product."

Guess [that] was my point, my friend.
When *&* where's the bottom where the other rub concerning multi-ownership not so critical. That unsavory condition will take care of itself in short order and I'm nothing if not patient. LOL

"At any rate, as circulation declines, there is a corresponding decline in influence."

Indeed.
Very essence of the "good news" in your morning pings, abb.
Now that part I get. LOL

16 posted on 10/19/2009 7:33:59 AM PDT by Landru (If you want to perform for 15 mins, 30 mins, 1 hour, 5 days, a YEAR! Call...)
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