[Rhodes22-list] Newspapers - Brad - Slim

[Slim]

Dave,

I think you're right about the newspapers but I'll NEVER be a Yankees fan!
Ever!  Never, ever!

Slim

On 1/18/07 5:41 PM, "David Bradley" <dwbrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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