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2008-02-08 -Obits-

Bird cage liner manufacturers in deep financial trouble

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-02-08 03:05|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 But for every dollar advertisers pay to reach a print reader, they pay about 5 cents, on average, to reach an Internet reader. Newspapers need to narrow that gap, but the rise in Internet revenue slowed sharply last year.

There's the killer. You have to appeal to 20x as many readers to keep the revenue flow going at the old levels. You don't do that by alienating your readers, posting half truths and lies, representing opinion as fact, and becoming nothing but tabloids on line. The internet is self checking. Too many choices, too many competitors. It's the real market place. You'll keep the Koolaid drinkers, but the old folk are dying off and the youngin's aren't biting the hook anymore. Meanwhile the autopilot classifieds now are being exploited by those quick enough to establish themselves years before MSM woke up. And my sympathy meter is broke.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-08 09:25|| 2008-02-08 09:25|| Front Page Top

#2 With the possible exception of the WSJ on most topics besides immigration, there isn't a single newspaper in America I trust anymore. They confused their editorial pages and their front pages, to the severe detriment of the truth. Consequently, they now get none of my money, hopefully to the severe detriment of their bottom lines. That's what they get for telling lies. Sympathy meter pointer here welded on zero.

Posted by Jomosing Bluetooth8431 2008-02-08 10:45|| 2008-02-08 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah, who cares? If they don't have newspapers to line the cages, let them use excess tax forms.

Posted by Tholush Squank4616 2008-02-08 13:00|| 2008-02-08 13:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey! Wait a minute!!!!!!

Charlie and Sweetpea poop all over the cage!!!!

Tax forms are too small!!!!!!

Posted by AlanC 2008-02-08 14:08|| 2008-02-08 14:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Whole forests sacrifice themselves for a bunch of filler and crap. American newsprint production is about 12.2 million metric tons per year, according to the American Paper Institute. I know it is sustained yield and all that, but something just sticks in my craw with the whole system.

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