(Washington) Post Apocalypse - inside the collapse of a great newspaper (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

The New Republic ^ | January 19, 2010 | Gabriel Sherman

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Tuesday morning good news.

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ping

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

Family businesses usually FAIL by their third generation. This should prove to be no different. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of liberals! :)

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http://lavrusik.com/2010/01/17/why-the-tablet-wont-save-the-print-industry/
Why the Tablet won’t save the print industry

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9599225
Morris Publishing Files for Bankruptcy Protection

[RayChuang88]

It appears the newspapers among the MSM totally missed Alvin Toffler's warning about the de-massified media as described in his seminal book The Third Wave.

Thanks to the modern public Internet, who needs printing presses--let alone an expensive news-gathering organization!--when anyone with an Internet connection can report on the news in real time with devices as small as a cell phone! That's why services like Twitter have taken off--a microblogging system that works with devices as small as cellphones. And since cellphones nowadays are equipped with cameras, we can get images AND video transmitted over the Internet from anywhere with cellphone coverage, too.

Interestingly, both CNN and Fox News Channel get it--they are heavily investing in Internet connectivity to provide faster news reporting. CNN was among the first to use real Internet broadband video to do news reporting, thanks to satellite communication links--dish and camera--that could easily fit inside a suitcase.

[Common Sense 101]

Washington Compost... DIE you gravy-sucking pig.

[Flightdeck]

They have an interesting correction this morning! I guess their front-page Sunday poll story failed to mention the little fact that 58% of Americans favor a smaller government with less intrusion. And they deleted that little bit of info...

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I just finished reading the whole article. Lots of finger-pointing and blaming. It reads like a pre-written obituary.

[Rummyfan]

Weymouth says the changes of the past year--however chaotic--were necessary to save the paper. Her job, she told me, is “to make sure the Post is here for generations to come.”

Good luck with that! Used to get The Post, mainly for the sports section and Stephen Hunter's movie reviews. But after 9/11, when one of their editorialists said we should stand down for Ramadan, that was it. Add to that E J Dionne and Dana Milbank, who needs it? The Washington Times did me fine.

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http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/444574-Why_the_Broadcast_Networks_Can_t_Take_the_Summer_Off.php
Why the Broadcast Networks Can’t Take the Summer Off
As they continue to face heat from cable networks’ buzzworthy originals—and cable operators in retrans negotiations—the Big Four will be working overtime during the warmer months to prop up primetime

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/jan/18/news-corp-blocks-linking
News Corp is foolish to block linking

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704541004575011482898148788.html
NBC to Pay $40 Million to Show Conan O’Brien the Door

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[matginzac]

Wash Compost demise = yawn

[bmwcyle]

I love going into Giant Foods when they have the person at the door sell subscriptions to the Washington Post. With a booming voice, I repond to his request to buy a subscription, "I would never get that paper. I have no desire to be lied to."

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http://www.minnpost.com/braublog/2010/01/19/15088/no_comment
‘No comment’
By David Brauer | Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 7:25 am
That was Star Tribune spokesperson Ben Taylor’s reply when I asked him whether: a) the Strib had plans to buy the Pioneer Press, b) sell to soon-to-be-deleveraged PiPress overlord Dean Singleton, or c) investigate lesser cross-town efficiencies.

http://www.contentbridges.com/2010/01/media-news-bankruptcy-and-the-fog-of-media-war.html
Media News, Bankruptcy and the Fog of Media War

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http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/
High debt plagues many more publishers

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=120815
MediaNews Enters Bankruptcy, Big Newspaper Chains Remain There

http://www.fitzandjen.com/2010/01/in-first-quarterly-report-same-costcutting-revenuedeclining-story.html
In First Quarterly Report, Same Cost-Cutting, Revenue-Declining Story

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Television_44/O_Brien_deal_50_million_and_hush_up.asp
O’Brien deal: $50 million, and hush up

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http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/64590
NBC readjusts Games sales goals

http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/16/forbes-journalism-twitter-intelligent-investing-blogs.html
Steve: We’re All Bloggers

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http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/what-thoughts-about-metered-paywalls-say-about-journalism-the-public-and-the-new-york-times/
What thoughts about metered paywalls say about journalism, the public, and The New York Times

[Lancey Howard]

... as the paper of record for national politics is under assault from numerous competitors ...

Yeah. The Washington Post, the New York Times, ABCNBCCBSCNN and the rest of the Democrat newsrooms are even getting scooped by the National Enquirer these days: