Do Web readers value journalism enough to pay? (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Los Angeles Times ^ | January 1, 2010 | James Rainey

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[RJL]

Do Web readers value journalism enough to pay?

Show us some honest journalism and we will let you know.

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Rainey can whine with the best of them. “We are OWED!!!”

[Brugmansian]

Only reason I read the LA Times, the NY Times and similar publications is to see what the official Democratic position is on something. If they go away, I’ll be forced to get it from Gibbs, Obama, Pelosi or Reid.

[kittycatonline.com]

Ain’t that the irony? Liberal Media panders to Liberals, and liberals respond in kind by not purchasing any product. The Liberal Solution? Make the government pay!

Say, how come liberals don’t support their own?

[vetvetdoug]

At this point in history I would not give a journalist the sweat off my left testicle. The so called professional journalists in the US are biased and write with an agenda that applauds liberalism and vilifies the middle and the right. Do I value journalism enough to pay? No because journalists that write for today's papers are liars.

[Billthedrill]

Maybe we do, but if I had to pay for journalism my money would be headed to British journalists, not American partisan political operators. The domestic media still appear clueless as to the extent to which their credibility died in the last Presidential election.

So why shouldn't I support, say, the NY Times? Because its staff hates me and holds me in contempt, that's why, and they don't even try to hide the fact. Why on earth would I pay someone for that?

[Gondring]

Show us some honest journalism and we will let you know.

Big talk, not backed up with facts.

Look at how conservative papers are closing faster than liberal ones. Look at how the Bulletin has fared. ?Are things great in Boston now? Look at the low quality of amateur reporting. Amateur reporting said that Rush Limbaugh was dead and that photos of his corpse were being bought. HA! A press conference from a walking, talking corpse today!

It makes a convenient meme, but it's not true that a liberal slant is what is killing newspapers...American ambivalence toward in-depth reporting is a large part of it. But go on with the Dan-Rather-style fake-but-accurate belief if tyou want.

[Reily]

No

[Ouderkirk]

we might if what you were actually doing was journalism.

Since it is not even close to journalism the answer is NO.

[Gondring]

A professional journalist wouldn’t care about your genital perspiration, but you’re welcome to tell everyone about it on your blog. I’m sure you’ll get readers.

[Gondring]

Exactly. Just going conservative doesn’t do it.

[LostInBayport]

Say, how come liberals don’t support their own?

Many of the liberals I know are very, very cheap when it comes to anyone but themselves. They will spend big bucks for their own toys, but when it comes to $10 toward a collection for someone they associate with, they just don't have the money that day. But they will express a wish that the person will be eligible for some state benefits.

So they won't gather together and buy extra copies of their favorite leftist ragsheets, but will "speak out" in favor of government subsidy. That's someone else's money, after all, right?

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Most of the information (?) in US papers these days is not worth paying for. It is on the internet the day before. The newspapers are now written by persons with an agenda. In addition the rarely know what they write about (unfortunately)

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For all these years, “journalism” - whatever that is - have thought their practitioners got paid for what they wrote/spoke.

Wrong.

The only value they ever had was the monopoly on distribution of content.

And that’s all gone.

[Dick Bachert]

PAY TO BE PROPAGANDIZED?

I DON’T THINK SO!!!!

[relictele]

Remember all the hype about the Dixie Chicks and their record sales after ‘George-gate’?

Once liberal outrage died down they couldn’t be bothered to keep buying.

[Rocky]

There’s a long list of liberal rags that ain’t gonna make it if their business model is charging on the internet.