Posted on 12/16/2009 12:48:04 PM PST by abb
Only 25%? They’re lucky.
it will be far higher than 25% (unless they are assuming massive government bailouts)
Had to go to the store on my lunch hour today. While waiting in the checkout line behind an idiot who was trying to figure out how much she could still spend on her ACCESS food stamp card (AAARGH!) I picked up a copy of the Pittsburgh P-G for the first time in many moons. It has very drastically shrunk in size from what I remember. My high-school paper printed some editions that were larger. Looks like they are in full retrench mode and are trying to put it out there as cheaply as possible. Which is good because I was able to pretty much get through it before that idiot completed her purchase.
I think the Bureau of Labor Statistics is being optimistic.
I find that anecdote shocking considering the strong demand to read the mind-blowing leftism of Connie Schultz and Regina Brett.
“Tempted to ask him how that Hope and Change is working for him.”
Do it and I’ll buy you a fat jelly-filled doughnut. Ask him when his squirrely wife cut off his _____ and I’ll throw in a cup of coffee.
(We must ____ off liberals when the opportunity presents itself.) Makes the liberal feel rotten and you feel better.
In any event it sounds, more to me, like a threat or hope than a prediction. LOL
That prediction is about the worst ever.
The rate of decline will continue to be steep and may turn asymptotic if papers begin to die in even modest numbers.
Bring out your dead!
I really don’t believe this number.
The only way that it can be justified is if reporters who work in many many non-print types of news reporting are included as “newspaper” jobs. By 2018, I suspect that there will only be a few reporters if any who are engaged solely in newsprint reporting. Nearly all news will be some type of instant/electronic media instead.
Bad news, IMHO. It means that 75% of those filthy evil lying swine will still be employed. Although I have to say I don’t entirely despise newspapers. I have to use something to keep the spray paint off my garage floor.
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