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2020-04-21 Home Front: Culture Wars
US newspapers face 'extinction-level' crisis as Covid-19 hits hard
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-21 10:40|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Could we start with the Grauniad first? Plese?
Posted by magpie 2020-04-21 12:31||   2020-04-21 12:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Craigslist alone killed the Classifieds
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-21 12:45||   2020-04-21 12:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Ironic, isn't it. Through their fear-mongering and TDS lust, they may have managed to deal themselves a mortal blow.

My heart pumps peanut butter.
Posted by Bobby 2020-04-21 12:50||   2020-04-21 12:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Who needs them in the internet age when they are just regurgitating the raw AP/UPI feed with cosmetic alterations? They don't have competent people, it seems, covering local news and their are apps on the common smartphones handling business. Just die, already...
Posted by magpie 2020-04-21 13:05||   2020-04-21 13:05|| Front Page Top

#5 It's a feature, not a virus bug.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-21 14:10||   2020-04-21 14:10|| Front Page Top

#6 What the Hell is wrong with these science deniers?Don't they believe in Evolution?
Posted by Cesare 2020-04-21 14:27||   2020-04-21 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 My heart pumps peanut butter.

As long as it's purple.
Posted by gorb 2020-04-21 14:45||   2020-04-21 14:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Save the Trees!
Posted by Gromolet Craiting5425 2020-04-21 17:07||   2020-04-21 17:07|| Front Page Top

#9 "If he dies, he dies."
Posted by Raj 2020-04-21 17:24||   2020-04-21 17:24|| Front Page Top

#10 every time I see the news of this useless industry's impending death, I quickly remember the taxpayer bailouts of airlines, car manufacturers, et. al.

Now that the precedent is set, no industry will ever die a natural (and in this case, a just-deserved) death. They will shortly be demanding their bailout and the taxpayer will once again take it in the shorts.

It will be even more insulting knowing that we have to pay the people that hate us.
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-04-21 20:45||   2020-04-21 20:45|| Front Page Top

#11 I would think such a bailout would run afoul of Constitutional issues - specifically the 1st Amendment.

No, not that part. The part that says
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion since the Press is one of the leading parts of the Religion called Progressivism.
Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-04-21 20:58||   2020-04-21 20:58|| Front Page Top

#12 With all of the bail-outs, there is pretty much no incentive for a company to be fiscally responsible and worry about the bottom line. Individuals with max'ed-out credit cards are not much better, the only difference is they don't have a "rep" on K Street.

Free-market capitalism? Give me a freakin' break.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-21 21:00||   2020-04-21 21:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Capitalist discipline for thee
Socialist sugar for me
Posted by Lex 2020-04-21 21:26||   2020-04-21 21:26|| Front Page Top

#14 Is "rent seeking" the same as asking for a cup of sugar? (lol)
Posted by Clem 2020-04-21 21:42||   2020-04-21 21:42|| Front Page Top

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