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2004-06-23 Home Front: Culture Wars

Some newspapers arenât as popular as advertised

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-06-23 2:41:51 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 These guys are dying. Slow suicide really. All The News That The Newsmedia Wants You To Read.

They so don't get it that I predict that we will see their demise in the not so distant future.

Posted by B 2004-06-23 8:44:09 AM|| 2004-06-23 8:44:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Die scum die! Long live the INTERNET and our creator Al 'Mad Man' Gore. The two liberal leaning newspapers in my area are STRUGGLING to keep afloat. They blame 'Neo-Conservative' internet sites and magazines for stealing their customer base.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-06-23 12:17:15 PM|| 2004-06-23 12:17:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Isn't the LA Times (that mecca of ~~yellow~~ journalism) laying off a whole bunch of staff?

Here in Seattle I think the Seattle P.I. is struggling and the Times isn't too far behind.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-06-23 12:19:35 PM|| 2004-06-23 12:19:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 CrazyFool, the TNT has had revenue problems the last few years. I know their circulation staff has been slashed with many people having to work crazy long hours, weeks without days off. In their attempt to deliver yesterdays news as early in the morning as possible, all the routes have been turned into motor delivery. No more kids on bikes after school. And with the price of fuel so high those routes don't pay much.

Staff has been cut in every dept.

Posted by Lucky 2004-06-23 12:58:15 PM|| 2004-06-23 12:58:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Cyber Sarge, please elaborate on their accusations? (That is, HOW "neo-cons" are supposedly stealing their customer base.)

Posted by Edward Yee 2004-06-23 1:51:39 PM|| [http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2004-06-23 1:51:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I quit taking the newspaper when I found out plastic wrap works a whole lot better for wrapping fish.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-06-23 4:04:05 PM|| 2004-06-23 4:04:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The St. Petersburg Times is so bad my puppy won't even shit on it.

Oh, and the Chicago Sun-Times? Lest we forget, Ebert and Roeper gave Faren-lies 9/11 "Two thumbs way up!". At which point I promptly declared all movie reviews from those two communist pricks invalid, along with their shitty 2nd rate newspaper.

I'm not alone.

Posted by Chris W. 2004-06-23 4:23:19 PM|| 2004-06-23 4:23:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Ed, a lot of people would rather surf the web for news than pay 50 cents for a paper. On my block I think two houses actually have the paper delivered (out of 15). I bought a paper when Reagan died and before that it had been months before I touched newsprint. The fact that my only two choices are the Sacaramento Bee or the Appeal-Democrat make it real easy not to buy a paper.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-06-23 7:23:40 PM|| 2004-06-23 7:23:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 sigh
I'd die without two papers in the morning.
chillun need papers just like dawgs do but later in life.

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-23 7:48:47 PM|| 2004-06-23 7:48:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The only reason I keep a subscription to the San Diego Union Tribune is that visitors from the midwest enjoy looking through it to get the "flavor" of the city (and, well, some of the comics). As for news, by the time it hits the paper, it's already old hat on Rantburg

Posted by RWV 2004-06-23 10:31:01 PM|| 2004-06-23 10:31:01 PM|| Front Page Top

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