The New York Times Gets Life Support

Townhall.com ^ | November 11, 2012 | John Ransom

[SueRae]

I’ll take my victories where I can get them. Die a slow agonizing death NYT.

[Brad from Tennessee]

While campaigning in 2007-08 Obama visited many newsrooms where he quietly floated the idea of newspaper bailouts. This increased his popularity with the print media. After Obama was inaugurated a couple of Democrats in Congress wrote a bill to that would have provided federal money to failing big city newspapers. Even with big Democrat majorities in both houses the bill was shot down.

[Catsrus]

Bye, bye, NYT. I hardly knew ya.

[wrencher]

Who are the Times advertisers? They need to be publicly boycotted by the right until they stop. A concerted boycott could put the Times under. It should only be a start.

[Bon mots]

I would love to have the funds it would take to buy it, then make Matt Drudge, Ann Coulter or Jerome Corsi Editor in Chief!

[ken5050]

NYT's new editor, imported from the BBC( of all places) starts new job this week. He's been implicated in the rapidly expanding BBC sex scandal..and may not last the year. Another great job by Pinch...

The Times is just about all out of stuff left to sell off to keep funding the losses

[granada]

NYT’s big-spending pundit, Nobel Prize Joker, Paul Krugman, doesn’t have any comments?

[GeronL]

I like this article. I might read it again tomorrow.

[chuckee]

That moron Sulzberger thinks the answer to his mismanagement of this piece of crap is to go internet and establish a paywall. If they won’t buy it in print why would they buy it on the internet. Paying for the Times propaganda rag on the internet is as popular an idea as paying for a case of digital herpes.

[kitkat]

“I would love to have the funds it would take to buy it...”

My favorite day dream. I wonder how many other Freepers share it.

[Venturer]

Amen Brother——nothing would please me more than seeing the whole liberal bunch that works there standing in the unemployment line.

And add the whole of MSNBC to that line too.

[ripley]

It seems that the clear thinking at the New York Times has been judged to be irrational by those knuckle-dragging,
ignorant, doltish, stupid, Christian morons in flyover country.

/sarcasm/

IMHO

[driftdiver]

They have a ton of Obama books sitting on their desks and shelves. Perhaps they could have a book sale?

Its kinda strange to walk into a business and see BOs books displayed.

[ripley]

“...nothing would please me more than seeing the whole liberal buch that works there standing in the unemployment line.”

There is no such thing as unemployment for Progressives. It is now called long-term, extended, unemployment benefits
that stimulate the economy which was destroyed by George Bush and made worse by the rich not paying their fair share of taxes. See? Ya know.?

/s/

IMHO

[Venturer]

Moe truth than sarcasm in that.

[Venturer]

More truth than sarcasm in that.

[LS]

There will. Be no “death” of the NYTimes. It, like all drive-by major outlets, will be directly subsidized by the DNC. It’s only a. Matter of time.

[foreverfree]

bump

[sirchtruth]

That moron Sulzberger thinks the answer to his mismanagement of this piece of crap is to go internet and establish a paywall. If they won’t buy it in print why would they buy it on the internet.

That's a smart move in a way, here's why...

More people are going to the internet to read their news. The NYT isn't dying only because they are a liberal rag, the bigger reason is the medium is shifting. Newspapers got extremely bloated and the internet in increasing as a media vehicle. Here's where it's really smart - in the print edition you reach a 500K+. In a paywall internet edition you reach Millions.

Selling this market to advertisers, where you can show real times results is a no brainier! Or at least it should be...