Posted on 08/17/2018 8:01:29 AM PDT by caww
If only that were the issue. They have very little local news in the local paper compared to yesteryear. It is cheaper to publish national columnists, “news” off the wire and their opinion pieces than hire actual reporters.
Let me know in 18 months how that worked out.
Boost subscriptions? More like driving away half of the country from reading their drivel and proving Trump’s fake news/democrat collusion point at the same time. Trump wins again! MAGA!
My wife has to have the Sunday El Estado which I call The State Daily Worker.
I despise it as much as any news rag.
I’d check to see if they collaborated but I don’t want to give them the clicks.
I thought the Times was losing subscribers.
uh, these kinds of online newspaper articles pretty much ALWAYS end with a plea to subscribe ... there’s absolutely no special link between that particular anti-Trump editorial and standard self-promotion ads at the end of articles ... they all pretty much do that all the time ...
“Our local paper called the other day and the person insisted that the Editorial Board had moderated their perspective since I cancelled my subscription.”
newspapers typically hire subcontractors for these kinds of sells jobs, and the minimum wage hacks on the other end of the line will tell whatever kinds of lies they think are necessary to trick people into buying subscriptions ...
The left wing market for newspapers is saturated. As a result of newspaper-supported leftist teachers’ unions, the younger generation of leftists can’t read, so their reader base is only old hippies, anyway.
If they want to attract new customers, they need to write things conservatives will read.
If they can’t figure that out about their market, they deserve to go bankrupt and disappear.
“I’d like to read some stats about how the papers are doing with their pay-for digital versions.”
newspaper circ stats are becoming increasingly hard to find online, particularly digital subscriptions ... from what little i can find, the digital stuff isn’t going well ... except for the WSJ and maybe one or two others, the revenue growth of digital subscriptions doesn’t even come close to making up for loss of print subscription revenue ... all but a few paywalls are easily bypassed with he NoScript addon to firefox, and most of those with non-bypassable paywalls simply cease to exist for all practical purposes since no one can access them but a few thousands of subscribers ... bottom line is that newspapers are dead from a revenue standpoint, and the few that might survive will be nothing but shadows of their former selves, becoming just a few more amongst billions of competing websites that have been around longer and are far better organized ... and it couldn’t happen to a better bunch as far as i’m concerned ...
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