Posted on 09/19/2012 7:11:36 AM PDT by all the best
There are three important things to keep in mind when looking at this gorgeous graph:
1. The graph is adjusted for inflation.
2. The red line accounts for online ad revenue.
3. The end began with the rise of the online blog.
Sometimes it doesn’t feel like we're winning, because the corrupt media still has the power to create its own reality – to create the illusion that they're everywhere and still quite capable of manipulating opinion, facts, and the truth.
But this graph proves that we're the ones who are winning and on two fronts. First off, the business model of being shameless left-wing shills when alternative and honest opinion is available online just isn't working. Secondly, as we've seen this election year, the corrupt media is more desperate to hold on to its narrative and political power than to fix its business problems. This means that in competition with the New Media, Old Media is forced to quadruple down on the appalling behavior that's driving customers away.
These cretins deserve to be put out of business and relegated to the ash heap of shame. This means we can't allow ourselves to be psyched out by what looks like impossible odds against implacable dominance. We have to keep fighting and pushing until the Washington Post, New York Times, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, and the rest cease to exist.
You know, for America.
These entities can't sustain themselves forever, and the harder we fight to force the truth out there, the more the media is forced to further disgrace and expose themselves to protect their lies. This is a win-win for us.
Something else to make you feel better: The media is putting everything they have into destroying Mitt Romney, and he could still win this thing.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Craigslist and eBay killed newspaper classified advertising.
Websites such as Realtor.com, Zillow, Trulia, and real estate agency websites dramatically reduced real estate advertising.
Dealer websites reduced auto advertising.
Retail websites reduced store advertising.
The absence of content meaningful to subscribers reduced circulation. The readers moved to the Internet or broadcast for news.
Arrogance and lack of vision prevented publishers from changing their content and business models in response to the environmental shifts. Like dinosaurs, they are dying.
Glen Beck gets it and is using new media to construct a new business model to create a conservative media company. Breitbart also got it and was on his way before his early death. If conservatives can capture and dominate the new media, the battle for the hearts and soul of the American people will become even more competitive. The question is how, other than home schooling, we do the same for education?
That also. The point is to take the credit away from newspapers because they are by-and-large Democrat shills. The very few conservative ones will just have to figure out how to work in the new electronic media age.
true
Although I don’t know of any actual conservative ones besides the Wash Times. There are some with conservative editorials but 90% of the paper is AP/NY Times/Wash Post/wire copy.
the fact that it is online top line too is stunning
it’s obviously mostly due to content
and US population in 1950 was 152 million.
today it’s 315,000,000
“I don’t use MSM any longer.”
They make my stomach hurt and my head explode so I avoid things that are harmful to my health.
I agree they have cut into the discretional user margin, but they have not in the Sunday paper market - those that are generally older and used to scanning all the circulars on Sunday.
For the electronic consumer, the order of the day should be to use electronic facsimiles instead of paper, or just use store coupons....anything but newspaper delivered coupons. These Democrat print-media dinosaurs need to be driven out of business.
I used to subscribe to the W Times weekly.....might do so again....I certainly read them online. ONLY that one, though.....I also cannot think of any traditional print media publisher I trust besides them. For certain, there are NO publishers here in Georgia that I’d give money to. The AJC are nothing but a bunch of race-baiting, Democrat shills, period.
the red line is revenue WITH online added
I'm doing my part...haven't purchased a newspaper in years and years. I still see a few elderly folks in the area shuffling out to the paper tube every morning for their daily dose of propaganda...most of them are known Demorats.
Go figure. :-)
That may already be whats happening.
They have been particularly intense partisans this year because I believe many of these are being subsidized under the table as a form of hidden campaign contributions. The NY Times for instance had its bailout by Carlos Slim, who I’m sure was looking for a benefit from another quarter. A favor for a friend, to be repaid by another friend. No doubt there was a quid pro quo as far as the expected behavior of the Times.
The same goes for broadcast news organizations, which have been money losers for a long time.
In the past newspapers were (mostly) independent businesses or units of a conglomerate that were expected to make profits. They had an overriding interest in selling copies and keeping advertisers happy.
Now that they can’t make it anymore as businesses, they have become purely political instruments.
You’ve given more thought to this subject than anyone else on these pages.
My observation is that big city newspapers target the people who remain after the higher income folks move to the suburbs. Inner city people are less educated, have less money and can’t be bothered to read a daily newspaper.
In other words, the big cities killed off the big city dailies.
My “essay” was written for an online class a few years ago, they were already pushing that meme back then.
The liberal papers encouraged policies that drove away their customers and put their advertisers out of business.
great work. lol.
With the legal requirement that cities and counties and such have to publish notices in a print publication, we will likely see tiny weeklies survive serving only a tiny number of people interested in such things; lawyers, politicos, insiders, businesses wanting government contracts and stuff.
Sort of what tiny newspapers were doing a hundred and fifty years or so ago. UK governments used to (still do?) print their own “Gazettes” with nothing but official notices, laws passed and stuff like that
Any business that advertises with a media outlet that is anti-business and is covering-up for the incompetence of this administration, has management that is not exercising due diligence with the stockholder’s hard-earned money. Management that behaves in this manner should be dismissed.
LOL
To me it's just the DNCp
My local paper is owned by a nonprofit organization - that ownership allows the paper to ignore citizen subscribers, the politics of small business that buy advertising, and the community in general. Not totally... but enough that it stops feeling like 'our paper'.
When a paper isn't part of the community - when they're so separated from their subscribers by age, class, values, concepts of fairness - they cease being useful for citizens. Well, beyond the obvious 'seeing what's on sale' or 'at the movies'.... things the Internet can and will continue to do better.
When a paper stops fighting for the respect and trust of their subscribers and turns their attention to how they're seen in 'the world of publishing' everything changes.
I know you understand this - from your comments Geron... but for others..
Think of a newspaper as if it's a toaster factory. The factory earns money by selling toasters to the city. When Suzy calls and complains her toaster's burning the toast, they care. Quality control is called - citizens are polled - if there's a production problem, it's changed. Natural healthy incentives keeping the system going.
Time goes by - all the toaster factories get bought out - each city has one toaster factory. And they're making money hand over fist... ( in the recent past this was true - relative to other industries - newspapers were little money making machines). Now the toaster factory hires from outside the area - they're looking for STAR POWER - young people out of places like Indiana - young people who can design toasters for the gods. Committees within the Toaster industry set up systems of prizes - prizes for the most elegant toasters. The best and brightest compete on such rarefied levels - beyond mere mortals ... amazing - beautiful ... toasters.
They ARE stars.
They DO SUCK LESS - an insider joke about how superior they are...suck less... so cute.
Again, Suzy calls and says - 'the toaster is beautiful but I don't need or want a toaster with eight slots that's connected to my computer and starts the coffee pot..." They're polite - but laugh about one of 'the crazies' calling.
We watch them - the boys at the New York Times - or the Tampa Bay Times - and we plead with them to consider us - they don't - and slowly we stop buying toasters. We toast bread on a cast iron skillet while hearing their self serving excuses about why the toaster factory's not making money - mixed with contempt for us. Contempt for people who don't understand their 'oh so wonderful' toasters with the elegant, award winning Pulitzer designs... and an industry dies.
Exactly!
They make me sick. They are channeling their feelings for what they think I believe which is totally opposite of what they think.
When a paper isn't part of the community - when incentives separate them from their subscribers by age, class, values, and concepts of fairness - they cease being useful for citizens. Well, beyond the obvious 'seeing what's on sale' or 'at the movies'.... things the Internet can and will continue to do better.
When a paper stops fighting for the respect and trust of their subscribers and turns their attention to how they're seen in 'the world of publishing' everything changes.
Think of a newspaper as if it's a toaster factory. The factory earns money by selling toasters to the city. When Suzy calls and complains her toaster's burning the toast, they care. Quality control is called - citizens are polled - if there's a production problem, it's changed. Natural healthy incentives keeping the system going.
Time goes by - all the toaster factories get bought out - each city has one toaster factory. And they're making money hand over fist... ( in the recent past this was true - relative to other industries - newspapers were little money making machines). Now the toaster factory hires from outside the area - they're looking for STAR POWER - young people out of places like Indiana - young people who can design toasters for the gods. Committees within the Toaster industry set up systems of prizes - prizes for the most elegant toasters. The best and brightest compete on such rarefied levels - beyond mere mortals ... amazing - beautiful ... toasters.
They ARE stars.
They DO SUCK LESS - an insider joke about how superior they are...suck less... so cute.
Again, Suzy calls and says - 'the toaster is beautiful but I don't need or want a toaster with eight slots that's connected to my computer and starts the coffee pot..." They're polite - but laugh about one of 'the crazies' calling.
We watch them - the boys at the New York Times - or the Tampa Bay Times - and we plead with them to consider us - they don't - and slowly we stop buying toasters. We toast bread on a cast iron skillet while hearing their self serving excuses about why the toaster factory's not making money - mixed with contempt for us. Contempt for people who don't understand their 'oh so wonderful' toasters with the elegant, award winning Pulitzer designs... and an industry dies.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.