[Rhodes22-list] Newspapers - Brad - Slim

[David Bradley]

Slim, I'd bet you can get the New York Times delivered to you in
Minneapolis.  Different sports but still a real newspaper.  Maybe you can
become a Yankees fan this spring?

We subscribed to the NYT as soon as we got to Seattle.

The larger news organizations are successfully using the Web as another
distribution channel to serve new consumer preferences in how and when they
get news, but the smaller papers won't be able to compete as national/global
news providers online the way they could in print.  I can't prove it to you
(at least not in the time available) but I'm pretty sure (make that certain)
that this is the reason the old line newspaper business is in trouble.

Dave

On 1/18/07, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
>
> Slim:
>
>     Consider that many of the Newspapers are owned by comglomerates and
> managed by journalist.  Who are the journalist who report and write for
> big
> newspapers?  Generally liberals, you know like those on this list.  Who
> are
> the readers?  For the most part not as liberal.  Who are the advertisers?
> The very same businesses who the liberals bash.  Hum?  A clue to another
> reason besides computers.
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
>
>
>
> TN Rhodey wrote:
> >
> > Slim,
> >
> > I canceled our paper about 6 months ago. I don't miss it at all. Plenty
> of
> > info on line.....try magazines for your time on the throne.
> >
> > Wally
> >
> >
> >>From: Slim <stevenalm at comcast.net>
> >>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >>To: Rhodes22-list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Newspapers - Brad
> >>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:37:35 -0600
> >>
> >>Brad,
> >>
> >>My favorite local rag, The Star Tribune AND the St. Paul Pioneer Press
> are
> >>both going down in flames.  The Strib was just sold in a rushed deal the
> >>day
> >>after Christmas to pay for MaClatchy's CEO, Gary Pruitt's capitol gains
> >>taxes.  After only a few weeks now both papers are shadows of their
> former
> >>selves with newsmen running for the door like lemmings.  Now would be a
> >>good
> >>time to try to lure your favorite Strib columnist, Katherine Kerston to
> >>Memphis.  (The only good news.)
> >>
> >>Papers across the country are losing readership because more are getting
> >>their news on the web.  Or is it more are on the web because papers are
> >>providing less?  Note: Minneapolis is the most web-connected city in the
> US
> >>per capita.  I won't read 32 pages online but I will in print.  A lot of
> >>folks read themselves to sleep at night.  I read myself awake and that
> >>coffee and paper thing has been a mainstay for ever.
> >>
> >>Sadly, I no longer feel I'm getting my money's worth from the Strib and
> I'm
> >>canceling my subscription after...well, after a lifetime since my
> parents
> >>always got the paper and so have I as an adult received the paper at my
> >>doorstep every day.  Now what am I going to do?  How am I supposed to
> get
> >>out of bed with nothing to read with my coffee?  How am I supposed to
> take
> >>a
> >>dump without the sports page?  Imagine me sitting there on the throne
> with
> >>my laptop.  No, don't.  Sorry for that visual.  These are life-long
> habits
> >>and I bummed.
> >>
> >>Slim
> >>
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