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Pale Blue Dot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 03:08 PM Original message |
Newspapers, reeling from slumping ads, slash jobs |
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OffWithTheirHeads (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. Maybe, if they actually printed news |
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PSPS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
2. That's because they're trying to sell something nobody wants |
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Mist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
3. All the consolidation has dumbed down the papers--real news is on the internet. It makes |
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CatholicEdHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 07:06 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. And most good news comes from overseas now |
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LaStrega (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
4. You're both correct. |
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summer borealis (244 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 04:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. All great points |
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natrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 07:02 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. yea too bad that isn't happening to tv news as well |
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LaStrega (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 09:38 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. check this out: |
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Diane R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
5. They have no one to blame, but themselves. Many of them (mine included) print self-serving propagan |
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iamahaingttta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. It's the Craigslist effect. |
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Ivan Sputnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
7. Vicious circle and downward spiral |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
9. I quit reading the local St Pete Times about 5 years ago ...nothing but ads in it.... |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
10. I cancelled my NY Times when they took on Rove . . . disgusting!!! |
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roseBudd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
13. what does this sentence mean? just two major publishers have investment-grade debt under S&P's |
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Maureen1322 (392 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:14 PM Response to Original message |
14. Canceled our local paper when the editor wrote an op-ed supporting torture. |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-30-08 08:49 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. cancelled NYT once, but got it again, until they hired Kristol. No more. never. |
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ccinamon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-30-08 05:19 AM Response to Original message |
16. I cancelled my subscription 5 years ago to the Star-Telegram, I told |
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Kahuna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-30-08 06:05 AM Response to Original message |
17. The Star Ledger (Newark) used to be an excellent paper. Now? |
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tanyev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-30-08 07:15 AM Response to Original message |
18. I buy the Sunday paper every week (Dallas Morning News) |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-30-08 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
20. I'll be honest - newspaper-reading seems so dowdy to me, because |
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JPZenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-30-08 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
21. Way to get people to read? Provide less news. |
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