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2009-02-25 Home Front Economy

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Hooray!

Posted by gromky 2009-02-25 02:38|| 2009-02-25 02:38|| Front Page Top

#2 But gromky, I fear that the business woes will do nothing to change the truly astonishing stranglehold that the major-media mentality has over the public square in the US, and the catastrophic damage that does to the country - both things dramatically demonstrated just this past November.

I'm starting to marvel a bit at the ability of so many (sadly a minority) to reason effectively about their world, despite the distortion and delusion that suffuses the "press," popular culture, academia, etc. It's sort of the way I felt about the remarkably sensible and independent views of the US I found in recently-former Soviet citizens throughout the former Union back in the early 90s. How sad is it that America today and dreary, propagandized, long-totalitarian former Soviet republics 15 years ago have such striking parallels?

Posted by Verlaine 2009-02-25 02:45|| 2009-02-25 02:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, with papers going out of business, it's a start. The market for local advertising is there, it just needs to be served by something other than a newsroom so biased that it doesn't even recognize when it's doing it.

Posted by gromky 2009-02-25 05:34|| 2009-02-25 05:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, don't tease me.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-02-25 08:51|| 2009-02-25 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 This is good news. Period. It opens the market back up for alternatives, including more balanced papers, radio and internet sources.

The most insidious thing about these papers -- the NYT particular -- is that they provide a great deal of useful information: book reviews, travel stores, news about new electronic gadgets, etc. Reading the NYT every day gives you a VERY strong sense that you are well informed -- and all the wile everything of real importance is omitted or an outright lie.

Posted by Iblis 2009-02-25 12:52|| 2009-02-25 12:52|| Front Page Top

#6 The S. F. Chronicle may be closing. It's good. It's bad. Whatever. It's reality. ADJUST!

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-02-25 13:27|| 2009-02-25 13:27|| Front Page Top

#7 I find it somewhat unsettling to think of that bastion of intellectual ideas and reasoned thought no longer having a hometown newspaper to express their thoughts and feelings. What will they do with themselves?

sarcasm off / :-(

Posted by WolfDog 2009-02-25 16:47|| 2009-02-25 16:47|| Front Page Top

#8 I wonder if anyone will notice?

Posted by JohnQC 2009-02-25 17:28|| 2009-02-25 17:28|| Front Page Top

#9 All those unemployed editors and writers will have to find honest work. That's gonna be tough.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-02-25 18:40|| 2009-02-25 18:40|| Front Page Top

#10 EU6305, especially in today's economy. I mean, the economy is worse today than it has ever been. Even before the Great Depression. Unemployment is at an all-time high - there are food riots everywhere. No one has ever seen an economy as bad as today's -- ever.
Or so you would believe if you listen to the mainstream media. Actually, unemployment as a percentage of the working force is no where near even levels seen during the Clinton administration.
Of course, if you're a journalist for a liberal newspaper, and all you can see is other journalists getting laid off, I suppose it does look like the end of the world.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-02-25 20:33|| 2009-02-25 20:33|| Front Page Top

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