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Re: Print newspapers will be the first to fall

Uncle B — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:55:03 -0000

Local News rag lays off! Fliers increase! Magazines die! The internet and TV broadcasting take over! Save a tree, see the news on TV! - Now we can record anything cheaply, and no one does! This is good for landfills, bad for recyclers. Newspapers have had their day! They are so 18 th Century! - like McMansions and land-yacht cars! Digital, with color and stereo sound at your fingertips is hard to beat! Girls are pretty on huge LCD screens, race cars look better too! The sounds are fantastic! Gone are the days of the paperboy, trudging through the snowbanks to bring you yesterdays news in smelly black and white print, and gone are the days when we payed 25 cents for hand services too!

Re: Print newspapers will be the first to fall

A Blog About Whatever — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:05:26 -0000

i give the death of news papers 2 - 5 years.

Re: Print newspapers will be the first to fall

duncanriley — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:50:04 -0000

I saw the Murdoch stuff, there's a post following once I work out which parts to run with, given there's a lot of it to pick from :-)

One major paper by Jan...not impossible, but I'd put the flood gates opening to about May or June. The major groups all have debt calls coming up in April or May, debt they are unlikely to be able to roll-over, and once one falls, the loss of confidence in the sector is bound to cause others to fall closely there after.

Re: Print newspapers will be the first to fall

Frank — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:20:46 -0000

Good article except for the prognosis on the death of newspapers. I believe we will see a major metro paper fold before Obama is inagurated January 20 with many more to quickly follow. Today Murdoch said some newspapers have become too focused on winning awards, or pushing their own agendas, at the expense of circulation.

"When I started out in the business anyone who dared parade a prize for excellence would have been hooted out of the newsroom for taking himself too seriously," he said.

"But today the desire for awards has become a fetish. Papers may be losing money, losing circulation, and laying off people left and right, but they will have a wall full of awards -- prisoners of the past rather than enthusiasts for the future."

Re: Print newspapers will be the first to fall

JohnMcDonald — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:02:09 -0000

Yeah, the local paper here is terrible but they're hiring. They got the Jacksonville.com domain name early and now they get a huge portion of all local news and community-related traffic. Of course, they're hiring SEOs and learning how to crowd-source more content, so I expect they can actually survive despite the fact that even The Onion makes fun of their "journalism."