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2009-01-17 Home Front Economy

Star Tribune files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

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Posted by Fred 2009-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Ah, I remember the Red Star...

Couldn't happen to a more deserving rag.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-01-17 00:08|| 2009-01-17 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 "The Internet" isn't killing newspapers. I don't subscribe to my local paper. I don't read their website either. The reason is that their national and world coverage are, word for word, what every other paper carries. Those are wire service stories that I already read the day before the paper comes out.

I do, however, read the Washington Times website because they offer content that isn't carried anywhere else. They offer original content and analysis that is different in perspective than that presented in most other papers.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-01-17 01:18|| 2009-01-17 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 If you sell something that only a few moonbats want to buy, and run yourself inefficiently, you'll go out of business.

No surprises here.

Posted by no mo uro 2009-01-17 06:24|| 2009-01-17 06:24|| Front Page Top

#4 ...When we got to SC in 1993, the only decent local paper was Columbia's The State. When President Bush was elected, they went BDS early and have stayed there ever since. I actually had one of their reporters tell me that I had a responsibility to buy their paper even though I don't agree with their editorial position.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2009-01-17 08:22|| 2009-01-17 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Adios fishwrap.

Posted by Hellfish 2009-01-17 10:46|| 2009-01-17 10:46|| Front Page Top

#6 What Crosspatch said. A few decades ago you needed your local paper because they had the news. They subscribed to the wire services and presented a part of that to you. You couldn't access the wire services yourself so you needed the local paper. That was the whole point of the wire services -- finding, reporting and aggregating news content and then presenting it to the locals for their distribution.

Today we can access the wire services in a variety of ways, either through any newspaper on line or directly at the wire service website ourselves. So who needs the local paper?

Unless the local paper makes the effort to make itself into something unique and valuable, it's going to die. It has to, because enough of their customers will go elsewhere for the news that they won't be able to sustain their business model.

Posted by Steve White 2009-01-17 11:08|| 2009-01-17 11:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Need to start researching replacements to news paper for lining the bird cage and starting fires in the fire place. That's the only two uses we really have.

Posted by AlanC 2009-01-17 11:52|| 2009-01-17 11:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Chapter 11 -- Companies go in but they rarely come out.

Posted by Iblis 2009-01-17 12:07|| 2009-01-17 12:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Need to start researching replacements to news paper for lining the bird cage and starting fires in the fire place. That's the only two uses we really have.

I've found it at Walmart in the paper section already. Same type stuff used in packing when professional movers wrap your belongings.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-01-17 12:14|| 2009-01-17 12:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Goody. Lefty propaganda organs starting to expire. Next up, NY Slimes. Hopefully, followed by WaPo. And, let us not forget Newsweek, Time, etc. Die and be gone.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2009-01-17 13:04|| 2009-01-17 13:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Buh-bye. :-D

(May I suggest the waving young ladies pic?)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-17 14:26|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-17 14:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Hope Mr. Lileks will be okay. He was the only valuable thing about this rag.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-01-17 15:13|| 2009-01-17 15:13|| Front Page Top

#13 All those colourful advertising circulars that are attached to the mailbox will do very nicely for the bird cage. The metals in the inks aren't healthy, so won't be a good idea for starting fires, but could be replaced with a few easy lighting charcoal briquets.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2009-01-17 17:57|| 2009-01-17 17:57|| Front Page Top

#14 what the hell are you doing letting your birds start fires anyway? Sounds unsafe

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-01-17 18:11|| 2009-01-17 18:11|| Front Page Top

#15 Birds gotta stay warm just like people. Besides, a nice fire is great when the bird friends come over to watch the Super Bowl. It's handy for toasting suet, millet, and popping corn, too.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2009-01-17 18:49|| 2009-01-17 18:49|| Front Page Top

#16 Our local paper's getting smaller and smaller, but not in danger of disappearing. Two things keep it going - EXCELLENT local news/sports/entertainment coverage (especially of military news [five active bases in the area] and Colorado College, USAF Academy, and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs sports); Chuck Asay (a local conservative editorial cartoonist, who's still great in semi-retirement); and local advertising. It takes at least TWO of those three things to keep it going, but they do concentrate on all three. Their comic section has nose-dived in the last year, but that's not enough to curtail purchasing the paper. It's also published by Freedom Communications, a mildly to moderately conservative group. Seeing the Star Trib crash and burn will generate some pretty serious mirth, after how they screwed Norm Coleman and the people of Minnesota in the last election.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-01-17 18:51|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-01-17 18:51|| Front Page Top

#17 Its chapter 11, not chapter 7.

They are still publishing.

Posted by mhw 2009-01-17 19:22|| 2009-01-17 19:22|| Front Page Top

#18 Heh, the editor graduated from the Tallahassee Democrat back in ummm.... 1990? I um... pardon me.. um. heh, no.. ha ha um.....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA asshole you know who you are.... google this moron.

Posted by .5MT 2009-01-17 19:37|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-01-17 19:37|| Front Page Top

#19 Bailout in 5, 4, 3 ...

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