New York Times Will End Print Edition (Eventually), Publisher Says (50% cut in newsroom staff?)

Atlantic ^ | 9/9/10 | Kevin Fallon

[JrsyJack]

Damn...what do I use to line my birdcage?

[InMemoriam]

The Free Republic New York Times death pool is now open!

...and I’ll guess the last issue will be...

July 30, 2011.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

LOLOLOL!

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

>> Their comics section is represented by Paul Krugman and Frank Rich. <<

You forgot Thomas Friedman... :)

[April Lexington]

Maybe the Saudis ccan send Carlos Slim $500 million to keep the S.S. NY Times afloat a bit longer.

Looks like Carlos pissed some serious bux down the proverbial Rat Hole!

[Tzimisce]

So how’s that “hope and change” working out for you jerks at the slimes?

Well don’t worry - Maureen Dowd will keep her million dollar paychecks. :)

[hinckley buzzard]

Maybe the Saudis can send Carlos Slim $500 million to keep the S.S. NY Times afloat a bit longer.

Judging by the slimes' news coverage it is quite possible they already have.

[hinckley buzzard]

They have always taken the liberal side, at least in modern times. The difference is that before alternative media, nobody knew they were being fed a contrived diet of leftwing hash. There was no fact checker until internet, cable news, and talk radio came along. Now they can't pull the same ol' sh*t, but they are too rigid and too entrneched to do anything else.

[hinckley buzzard]

Periodical print media for general news just doesn't cut it anymore. As someone pointed out, by way of comparison, who needs a "News"-"Week" when you can get news reliably almost as it breaks, and mostly for free? Same for a "national" newspaper--On Sunday The NY Slimes will give you Saturday's news, which you already read on the internet on Saturday. Or Friday.

I get the Sunday paper for the sports section, esp. during football season, and a local county-level paper so I can find out what my idiot neighbors are up to. That's about it. The local is doing fine btw.