Call it 'trickle down disgust'.
Posted on 08/13/2019 5:21:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sorry - when your primary mission is not to report the truth, but to make Republicans look bad at every turn, people are going to stop buying your product.
Call it 'trickle down disgust'.
In my hometown, having a paper route as a little kid was kind of a rite of passage. Best job I could have had as a little kid (except for the one house with the unchained husky they kept outside).
Everything comes to an end.
I lament the loss of newspapers. (That,s NEWSpapers.)
I applaud the loss of the MSM.
Agree, the MSM is the enemy, and should be treated as such.
They died because it was a bad product and not due to a lack of demand. The all went lefty....
HA! A demonicRAT who applauds a newspaper that holds government accountable?
Imagine that. A business that can’t survive in a district represented by a demonicRAT.
Allow me to translate this bit of Democratese: "Newspapers are the lapdogs who never hold Democrats accountable and act as a cheerleader for the criminal elements in Democrat politics."
Tears over closing the buggy-whip factory. Getting news the next morning is getting news late in today’s world.
The paper in my town went from 2 editions daily to just two insanely thin sections (Section B is just sports and classifieds)with the front page half taken up with some cut and paste Washington Post story that is wholly irrelevant to anything local.
>>And without that, it’s very difficult for a community to maintain its sense of self.
Local radio, tv, and newspapers are all gone.
All that’s left are entertainment/real estate developer rags.
And real estate investment is no longer local either, whether they live out of town, out of state, or another country, they have no ties to the community apart from the politicians they sponsor for the deals they want (whether than is zoning changes, liquor permits, etc.)
I agree that it is a problem in that nobody else has really picked up the ball to cover what your local school boards and town councils are up to. They have the power to tax, which is the power to destroy. And they are manned, as George Carlin wisely observed, by people whose darkest secrets prevent them from seeking higher office. With no eyeballs on them I suspect the level of mischief will get cranked-up from an 8 to an 11.
But I don’t know what the answer is. Certainly not public subsidies for newspapers, which is something many articles like this are arguing for.
Print newspapers are dying everywhere. Children and young people get their news over the Internet. Newspapers get 80% of their income from advertising. This money is now moving to the internet. The only way for newspapers to survive is to go digital online. Otherwise they will perish.
The Papers responded by ripping business even more accelerating the vicious cycle and the final result is what we are seeing here.
The solution is pro-business Media that does not attack Business unless there is absolutely no defending what a business has done.
I'm sorry to say that the media will have to implode before it can realize its fiasco.
Newspapers have become reliable activists for the Left Wing and totally unreliable for providing fair and balanced NEWS. Hmmm, what went wrong?
Businesses go under all the time. Why should anyone other than the employees care if some 4th tier propaganda organ fails?
Sorry weasel but trying to tie closing a Democrat propaganda machine to closing an auto plant to help gin up sympathy for our enemies in the media is a non-starter. How do I know the paper is a Democrat propaganda machine? You did say it was a newspaper right? Go away. I don’t have any sympathy for my enemies.
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