No news is bad news (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Variety ^ | October 23, 2009 | Michael Schneider

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Sunday good news.

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http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/
Newsday Joins Paywall Party

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004030218
Amid Newsroom Cuts, ‘NYT’ Goes Outside for Regional News

http://cancelthebee.blogspot.com/
Looking for clues about the changes coming to McClatchy newspapers

[Da Coyote]

Can’t remember when I last watched a newscast of any kind. Got tired of the cookie-cutter bimboy-bimbo combo for the news, followed by a dippy sports idiot, and then the standard weather guy/girl (probably the only one of the troupe that actually had any kind of a good education).

[Psalm 144]

“Bailout” prep work.

Look for this to morph into calls for government subsidies (extracted from our wallets) to NPRify the local TV news.

[Vince Ferrer]

Ernie Bjorkman: laid off TV anchorman becomes veterinary technician

[charles1252]

For years the definition of news to these local affiliates was the fire and police report, and a few “public interest”
few good stories. If you want to ask the all important question, how does this effect me, and why should I care about this story, they demonstrate how irrelevant they are?

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Already underway.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/18/AR2009101801461_pf.html

Finding a new model for news reporting

By Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson
Monday, October 19, 2009

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— A national Fund for Local News should be created with fees the Federal Communications Commission collects from or could impose on telecom users, broadcast licensees or Internet service providers. Grants should be made competitively by independent state Local News Fund Councils to local news organizations for innovations in local news reporting and ways to support it.

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[martin_fierro]

Beard, for one, is worried that local TV news has "worked hard to lose the public trust" over the years

Can't imagine why.

[Signalman]

Who is that news anchor?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“dawn of the “Post Star Anchor Era” in TV news. “

Long overdue. A hairdo and the appearance of “gravitas” is no substitute for good reporting.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Here, in Canada, networks are furiously lobbying for a cut of the revenues from cable and satellite companies — to pay for local programming.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Most people are turned off by socialist propaganda 24x7.

[Night Hides Not]

This picture would have been more relevant:

Surely, they could have found a picture of an actual B52. Sheer laziness.

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http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/digital/e3i5d92320f49c835bc74bc7f8e5449e974
E-readers: Will They Save the Publishing Industry?
By early next year, we may be looking at a dozen entries in a category that was once a geeky cul de sac

http://www.johntemple.net/
Did the Internet kill the Rocky Mountain News? And, if it did, what can we learn from its death?

[Frantzie]

TV news has worked hard spreading the liberal propaganda for the DNC. Didn’t they used to require that the weather person be a meterologist? Isn’t that degreee pretty quantitative and no walk in the park?

It seems like TV news just went for bimboy weather girls not wearing a bra and then they cranked the A/C down to cold in the studio.

[11Bush]

It seems like TV news just went for bimboy weather girls not wearing a bra and then they cranked the A/C down to cold in the studio.

I have got to start watching this channel.

[Tribune7]

[haroldeveryman]

Look for this to morph into calls for government subsidies

Morph in progress.

Link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367962/posts

Subsidies For News? ( “The Reconstruction of American Journalism”)

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http://www.magazinedeathpool.com/
The incredible shrinking magazine: Fortune

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/10/dan-rather-dont-curtail-foxnew.html
Dan Rather: Don’t curtail Fox News or any other cable infotainment shows

http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=139946
Newspapers Grapple With How — or Even Whether — to Erect a Pay Wall