Newspapers are not in the “news” business, they are in the advertising business. News is the content that bring the eyeballs to their ads.
Newspapers as they exist today are failing because they have decided to become crusaders and have chosen sides in our cultural war. They have in effect told half their potential readers we do not care about you or what you think so go away. And go away they have.
RIP newspaper, no one killed them, they committed suicide.
“Newspapers are not in the “news” business, they are in the advertising business. News is the content that bring the eyeballs to their ads.”
Not really. It’s actually the advertisements that give the newspapers any value at all. We get the weekend paper, Fri-Sun, exclusively for the ads. The paper is so repulsive, so biased, that I read the Sunday comics, and a little bit of the sports page. Mrs. Brownsfan is the one who wants the ads.
The paper recently expanded “weekend” subscriptions to Fri-Mon, and then kicked the price up, as if we wouldn’t notice what they’re doing.
Every single time I get bored and venture into the paper to look at the “news” or the editorial page, it raises my blood pressure. Such epic bias and stupidity.
It has come to the point where the local once a week free paper has much more value than the daily newspaper.
I heard that overall newspaper circulation, for printed newspapers, has declined about 35% since the year 2000.
Internet subscriptions to papers has not come anywhere near making up for the loss of newspaper sales of the actual printed paper.
Part of this is generational, in that, relatively few young people read an actual printed newspaper, or would buy an actual printed newspaper.
Newspapers as we know them may not be here in 20 years. I’ve heard some papers are beefing up online presence and will plan to be online only in the future.
“Newspapers are not in the “news” business, they are in the advertising business. News is the content that bring the eyeballs to their ads. Newspapers as they exist today are failing because they have decided to become crusaders and have chosen sides in our cultural war. They have in effect told half their potential readers we do not care about you or what you think so go away. And go away they have. RIP newspaper, no one killed them, they committed suicide.”
100% correct, but i’ll add that not only did newspapers become crusaders for the left, but they simultaneously dropped the reporting of actual news, the very thing that WAS bringing in the eyeballs to see the ads ... actual news gathering is expensive, pulling anti-trump crap from the wire services not so much, so virtually eliminating expensive local news gathering is part of their death spiral ...
and all of the above couldn’t have happened to a better bunch ... oh, and remember, every time a “reporter” is fired from a lefty outfit, an angel gets its wings ...
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!