Posted on 05/20/2018 6:49:45 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
"By raising prices and lowering quality, a stagnant business can rely on its most loyal customers to continue to buy the product, allowing it to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze its customers as they croak. This slow liquidation of an asset’s value, destroying even its reputation in the process, kills the product. Wherever newspapers can be found reducing page size, cutting news pages, narrowing coverage area, reducing staff, shrinking circulation area, postponing the purchase of new equipment and raising subscription prices, they are harvesting market position."
Hoping my local rag dies. On the day of inauguration, it ran a huge story, on the front page and on 2-3 other pages, about the obama legacy and how much we would miss him.
I hope they lose money and go bankrupt.
Somehow missing from the article is the fact that the Denver Post is full liberal - ignoring very obvious corruption in the city, looking the other way while the corrupt and inept city council promotes sanctuary and votes to allow folks to take bodacious Obamas in the streets. They play down the fact that the police union voted “no confidence” in the corrupt black police chief appointed by the more corrupt black mayor.
The paper is a joke, and the “reporters” deserve what they have and will get.
I hope for the day when The State, Charlotte Observer, and Rock Hill Herald go away.
I’m cancelling my subscription to the Dallas Morning News first thing on Monday morning. The letters to the editor are always filled with Trump haters, but today there was a letter printed that was against Pastor Jeffress that was so vile and repulsive that it made me sick. I emailed the person in charge of letter selections with my opinion (not that he cares), but I will never buy that paper again.
The Orange County Register was a good paper before Randall Smith took over. Now it’s gotten much more liberal as well as having fewer pages and costing more. It’s also harder to find in newsracks.
Peter Boyles talks those points almost every day on am 710. The Denver Post is completely in the tank for the corrupt democrat establishment.
I hope newspapers find a way to survive. I don’t want to have to read everything on screens. I can only read screens for so long before my eyes start to hurt.
Yo, Denver Post, want to increase your readership? Print your paper on Zig-Zags.
The Rocky Mountain News was acquired By the Denver Post and now both will bite the dust.
This isn’t how a newspaper dies, it is how we don’t care for liberal propaganda and liberalism ides.
Heck, not even liberals want to read that tripe.
News outlets (CNN is a nonprint example) die when they fail to produce content that a substantial number of their base consumers want. Coupons are online now. Classifieds are online now. Weather? Online and animated.
Good coverage of local sports, local govt, community events, obituaries is what’s left. The challenge is to untangle the web of conflicts that are embedded in the relationship between ad dollars from local businesses, lawyers and healthcare providers and their corresponding political contributions. Being a good journalist is a lonely job.
The web has a huge advantage over print with its ability to link items in an article to an external website. I can’t stand “continued on page A4...” . If I don’t understand something I’m reading on a webpage, I open a new tab and Google it. Can’t do that with a newspaper.
News outlets (CNN is a nonprint example) die when they fail to produce content that a substantial number of their base consumers want. Coupons are online now. Classifieds are online now. Weather? Online and animated.
Good coverage of local sports, local govt, community events, obituaries is what’s left. The challenge is to untangle the web of conflicts that are embedded in the relationship between ad dollars from local businesses, lawyers and healthcare providers and their corresponding political contributions. Being a good journalist is a lonely job.
The web has a huge advantage over print with its ability to link items in an article to an external website. I can’t stand “continued on page A4...” . If I don’t understand something I’m reading on a webpage, I open a new tab and Google it. Can’t do that with a newspaper.
The answer to those attacking Smith is simple. Start up your own newspapers, with all the reporters and “quality” you wish to invest into them, and make gigantic profits and save the industry. Show him how it’s done.
I learned recently that Boston’s conservative paper, the Boston Herald, filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, and was sold in a bankruptcy sale.
But it’s still being published by the new owner, and Howie Carr is still writing his column.
I just love these uplifting stories, this one makes my day. Watching journalists self destruct before our very eyes bring warmth and joy and is well deserved.
Totally agree. There are lots of local and regional stories out there that people would pay to read if somebody would report on them.
Never cared for the Denver Post when I lived in Denver - I liked the Rocky Mountain News.
Want a good and profitable newspaper? Print news! That's what “reporters” and their hard nosed editors did.
Want to kill your newspaper? Print opinion purporting to be news. That's what “journalists” do. They've been killing newspapers since the late 1960’s.
Format is not the problem. School of “journalism” graduates is the problem.
I like the feel of a newspaper in my hands.
The recent move toward “advertorial” news must be a disappointment to real reporters.
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