How Business Travelers Contributed to USA Today's Decline (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Poynter Online ^ | September 5, 2010 | Adam Hochberg

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Sunday morning good news.

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[CodeToad]

USA Today is written like a Communist propaganda cartoon. It contains little information and what it does have only the sports section is even remotely accurate or timely.

[vladimir998]

I used to subscribe to several newspapers and magazines. Now, none. There’s just no point to it. I can find all the same info online - for free!

[grania]

USA Today is written like a Communist propaganda cartoon. It contains little information and what it does have only the sports section is even remotely accurate or timely.

I liked it a lot up until a few years ago. Then, it got like the useless (actually worse that useless, damaging with their views and elitism) Cleveland Plain Dealer. That is, I could sit there for an hour reading it, and not know anything I didn't already know.

[grania]

For now, I’m subscribing to Bloombery Business Week. It’s a little bit quirky and does some things in depth, which is what I like in a magazine.

[SkyPilot]

This is the original image taken by AP photographer Mikhail Metzel during a Senate hearing

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This is the image that appeared in the 0/19/2005 USA Today

Only after being caught, did McPaper apologize:

Good riddance to bad rubbish. These people are not "journalists." They are spoiled children who deserve to be unemployed.

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Sale of Brown Publishing Newspapers to Lenders Approved by Bankruptcy Court

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I stay at Marriotts and Hiltons frequently. What I like to do at checkin is demand the 75 cent credit to the hotel charge because I don't want the USAToday paper. They always credit without complaining.

I've noticed more and more patrons doing the same thing. I suspect Bill Marriott has noticed the trend. It's like a tea party in the lobby only more selective.

[Kansas58]

How about we get someone in Congress to propose a TAX!

A TAX on NEWSPRINT!

Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and

Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and

Whereas the distribution of newspapers requires the use of dirty internal combustion engines and

Whereas a large portion of every landfill is used for discarded newspapers,

Therefore:

Be it resolved that a Newsprint tax, of $1,000.00 per pound, be charged to EVERY newspaper with a daily subscription, within the United States!
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We should get some Republican to propose THIS as an amendment to any “cap and trade” or “carbon tax” proposal that comes up!
Maybe we can make it like “Cap and Trade” and use the revenue generated, from this tax on dirty dinosaur newspapers, to subsidize a tax credit for home computers and digital devices?
Or, we could use the money to subsidize talk radio! Well, those guys really don’t need any help!

[Abin Sur]

When I went to San Diego this summer, the hotel left a USA today at the door each morning; all I did was throw it away. I would have done the same had it been the local paper. I had my laptop and iphone, so why would I want to read a newspaper?

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Grampa Dave has been doing this for years. He says the satisfaction from doing it is worth way more than the $0.75.

[Leisler]

You can’t give away free government edjamakation now a days.
I’d live in a van down by the river before I’d live in ‘Pubic Housing’.
Government cheese anyone?
NPR has to survive by taxing people that won’t listen to it.
I don’t see why RINO’s, and non RINO’s( Democrats ) won’t taxpayer fund a ‘national newspaper’, you know, to ‘unite us’.

[nwrep]

Thank you for posting. Nothing warms my heart more than reading the continuing, slow, painful demise of the peddlers of printed Communist propaganda.

[Chode]

i haven't been required to travel since 2005 and that was the only time i ever read it...

i don't miss the travel or the paper

[Shire]

I travel a lot and I never read them. I just toss them on the bed and leave them. I can’t remember the last time I even opened one up.

[bert]

Although I am not on the road as in days of yore, I do travel and my Iphone provides a Fox News mobile ap and a Forbes mobile ap. That’s all I need. There is also Free Republic but not yet in a mobile format.

There is a USA ap but who needs or wants it with Fox and Forbes

[ChildOfThe60s]

The fine print on hotel bills often notes that a 75 cent or dollar newspaper charge has been included in the room rate.)

When I see that on my bill, I will hand the unread papers over to the front desk and tell them to remove the charge. I don't recall having it happen to me. But I don't stay in hotels that much.

[Blueflag]

“pored over his USA Today for almost an hour as he ate his room-service breakfast”

Slow reader. There’s not that much content in a USA Today paper.

15 minutes TOPS.

[abb]

I don’t know of any business traveler that doesn’t have a laptop, too. Everything at your fingertips.

Once again, proof of our theory that it never was the content, it was the distribution system that allowed the Dinosaur Media to be dominant for so long.

All gone now.