Posted on 04/02/2019 7:38:33 AM PDT by relictele
The Pig Squealer has been a piece of trash for many, many years. They’ve endorsed every rotten racist candidate from the mayor to Valerie Jarrett’s assistant.
” shoddy attributions like “experts say.” “
but such an EASY way to avoid actual research and actual explanations by naturally lazy “reporters” ...
Trying. To. Care.
Nope. Can’t do it.
Up to the 60’s the PD was a major newspaper, respected nationally. Then the rot set in; the paper veered left, which affected not only the editorial page but the editorial/ decisions on what news to print and how to slant it.
While Cleveland has prided itself as a blue collar town, mostly democrat leaning, events forced the people to face up to reality. They lost their taste for AFL-CIO headlines and Dennis Kucinich’s default.
But the people running the paper made the usual mistake, thinking that if a little left wing bias was good, a lot of it would be better. Certainly the internet played a major role, as the PD’s extensive classified section dwindled to ads from car dealers and a few random notices. But the fact is, the paper stopped providing even decent amount of local news; wire stories on the internet three days ago began to appear in the news section; and as the paper itself physically shrank to almost tabloid size, with few pages, the price went up.
It has become a waste of time to read and money to buy, and may as well just die a quiet death.
“Not really. It’s actually the advertisements that give the newspapers any value at all.”
No. CIB-173RDABN is 100% correct because if the newspaper can’t attract eyeballs to read the ads, they won’t get any ads and the revenue the ads bring ... hence the absolute need for eyeballs ... thus the newspaper death spiral consists of a continuous cycle of losing eyeballs due to shrinking interest, followed by losing ads ... once eyeballs go to zero, so does ad revenue ...
“I heard that overall newspaper circulation, for printed newspapers, has declined about 35% since the year 2000.”
I’ve studied the circ number on and off for years, though they are increasingly difficult to find, and i can tell you that circulation is down WAY WAY more than 35% during the last 20 years ... it’s more like only 35% of circulation remains from 2000 ....
“Internet subscriptions to papers has not come anywhere near making up for the loss of newspaper sales of the actual printed paper.”
that was always the great (ignorant) hope of dying newspapers, i.e., they could shift to digital platforms ...
but the fallacy always was, and is, that newspapers use to command print ad rates hundreds of thousands of times higher than digital ad rates because:
1. newspapers used to essentially have a total monopoly on advertising in their local markets ...
2. ads on the internet not only essentially reach the entire population of the earth, but cost microcents per view ...
The Dayton Daily Tampon is now printed in Indianapolis. I miss the old Journal Herald it was a decent paper back in the 70’s.
“PUBLIC SUBSIDIES for newspapers” = government taxpayer subsidies = government propaganda media (e.g., NPR & PBS) = exactly the same situation as in the old soviet union ...
“Oh yeah, right, like these stupid union democrat handjobs are going to learn HTML, javascript, java, C++, Swift etc.”
well, hey, if coal miners can do it, certainly college edumacated “journalists” can do it!
One solution, tried many times in many places, is to lie about the circulation numbers! LOL.
Magazines, Newspapers, who reads these archaic and ultra liberal rags? Next will be the CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC network news.
Who watches that trash? Advertisers are careful with their budgets. Lack of advertising will kill net work news.
Hooray!
“Salem media just laid off staff and is trading near it’s 52 week low. Rush and Sean syndicator is just now emerging from bankruptcy. Content doesn’t seem to be the only issue.”
i think radio itself has it’s own set of unique, systemic problems as a broadcast medium ... independent of content
One solution, tried many times in many places, is to lie about the circulation numbers! LOL.
Magazines, Newspapers, who reads these archaic and ultra liberal rags? Next will be the CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC network news.
Who watches that trash? Advertisers are careful with their budgets. Lack of advertising will kill net work news.
Hooray!
They mashed the boil and some puss ran out, but the head remains. So, reporters are let go, but the editors stay. How will anything change. The boil will now fester and collect more puss that will sooner or later have to be relieved again. Stupid is as stupid does.
“t’s funny you mention cost because MOST news sites have implemented the cheapest, laziest paywall technology - which reflects their cheap/lazy mindset but also their arrogance.”
i think a lot of these outlets want the leakage because otherwise if they were 100% behind 100% effective paywalls, then they’d be so cut off from the rest of the world they’d simply shrivel up and die because their product is so useless or redundant that very few are willing to pay for it and even fewer advertisers are willing to pay to have their ads 100% behind effective paywalls
only a couple of outlets like the WSJ can afford to cut themselves off completely except for paying customers, and quite frankly i think the WSJ is gonna eventually find out that that model isn’t sustainable ...
I agree about feigning resistance to leakage but so many of these rags are McClathy, Gannett and other top-down outlets - they don’t even get a say in what technology is implemented (poorly or otherwise).
The Gannett web template (USA Today, et al) is nigh-on unusable and always has been yet they stick with it.
I understand there are jobs open in the coal industry.
I was on a flight last week and saw a couple reading a newspaper. Wow, somebody does still reads those things! I said! They just raised their noses a little higher in their smug ignorance!
Leftist domains (like J school) believe that propaganda leads to political power, and they want political power.
The problem the MSM has is they moved so far left so fast that they lost all credibility.
Just as in money matters, pigs get fat but hogs get slaughtered.
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