Looks like this one's about to begin coughing up blood...
We can't cut our way to profitability. But we can't survive by doing things the way we have been.
1 posted on
10/23/2006 1:40:18 PM PDT by
abb
To: abb
Raoul's First Law of Journalism
BIAS = LAYOFFS
2 posted on
10/23/2006 1:41:00 PM PDT by
abb
(The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
To: abb
propelled by lasting changes in lifestyle, technology and commerce More likely propelled by an unsympathetic blogasphere that insists they tell the truth rather than the predigested pablum they normally regurgitate.
To: abb
I hope this clown is one of the Dinosaur mediots favorite advisors with this bs passing as wisdom:
"The seeds of these changes were sown long ago. Alberto Ibarguen, the president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, left this pearl of wisdom when he visited the Akron Roundtable last week: The advent of radio and television was less responsible for the drop in daily newspaper readership than the rise in women working outside the home."
Women flooded the workplaces two decades ago and into this decade. The Newspaper problems didn't really start until 2000 and went into high gear after 2004. The political stances of these left wing liars has driven away millions of GW voters. That may be biggest factor besides the internet and conservative talk radio beating the old MSM with faster and more reliable news 24/7/365.
6 posted on
10/23/2006 1:51:04 PM PDT by
Grampa Dave
(There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
To: abb
We are engaged in nothing less than a battle to preserve local journalism, help local advertisers grow their businesses and help our community thrive and prosper. I wonder what grade Mizell Stewart III is in?
To: abb
"to bolster our online classified advertising presence."
our local paper won't let you advertise guns in their classifieds.
they also will not STOP delivering the paper to us. We've called and complained and have not paid in over a year, yet we get the paper daily.
I read somewhere that they have "minimal distribution" numbers that they had commited to subscribers.
pretty funny when they have to give it away because nobody will buy it !
8 posted on
10/23/2006 2:02:25 PM PDT by
stompk
To: abb
"We can't cut our way to profitability."
Of course you can. The fact you don't understand the basics of business administration doesn't change them at all.
9 posted on
10/23/2006 2:03:11 PM PDT by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: abb
I honestly think that there could have been a place in the future for local newspapers. I like keeping up with the local news...and don't necessarily like getting it off of the web.
I hate watching tv news. I have no control over the content and far too much of my time is wasted waiting for them to cover something I am interested in. I am much more in tune with written media because of the control that I have. I choose the articles that interest me...no wasted time. Having said that, I would be willing to pay (a small amount at least) to keep up with the current local news. A good newspaper that stuck to the news without bias would fit my needs.
The only problem with this is that my local papers are anything but unbiased. Additionally they continually harass me about subscribing. At this point even if there was a new local newspaper (or an existing one changed its behavior), I would never notice.
If I was a betting man, I would be selling newspaper stocks short.
10 posted on
10/23/2006 2:06:46 PM PDT by
flipper999
(vote early, vote often, vote republican even if it hurts.)
To: abb
But we can't survive by doing things the way we have been. That's where realism, optimism and determination comes in. Try integrity.
11 posted on
10/23/2006 2:18:38 PM PDT by
3niner
(War is one game where the home team always loses.)
To: abb
I can't wait for the day that I can explain to my grandkids what a "newspaper" was.
12 posted on
10/23/2006 2:41:48 PM PDT by
Lekker 1
(("...the world will be...eleven degrees colder by the year 2000" -- K. Watt, Earth Day, 1970)
To: abb
Translation:We're going to continue to dump our liberal sewage into your home ,but were going to try a different way to do it.
14 posted on
10/23/2006 2:47:09 PM PDT by
Carl LaFong
(Give Turtle Bay back to the turtles.Oh...and watch out for snakes!)
To: abb
It's too bad- there really is a market for hard-copy local news. Like most others, my "small town" NE Ohio rag is 90% bash-Bush and 10% obits.
15 posted on
10/23/2006 2:50:22 PM PDT by
fat city
("Journalists are sloppy, lazy and on expense account")
To: abb
Looks like this one's about to begin coughing up blood... LOL! The Akron BJ really is a cheezy commodity. No redeeming virtue that I can see. The irony is that all around Akron, in the small towns and municipalities, there are about three layers of local news sheets, trader and shopping tabloids, for lack of a better descriptive term, and even magazines which have been surviving for numerous years now, with heavy advertising by local small businesses, local sports and social news, and --local flavor. It's fun to see your own kids in the sports section, and those of your neighbors, and read about the folks down the street starting a new coffee house in town.
Rupert Murdoch told these people, at the ASNE last year, the way to survive is to go local. The lumbering mastodons like the BJ were too pompous to listen.
To: abb
All they'd have to do is tell the truth in their reporting and balance their editorials, but they'd rather die than be honest. So be it.
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