[Rhodes22-list] Newspapers - Brad - Slim

[David Bradley]

- )   I know what you mean.



On 1/19/07, Slim <stevenalm at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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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