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Newspapers As We Know Them May Cease To Exist ... But What Will Become Of The News Itself?
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- Shame on you CBS Sunday Morning.
As members of the press, you should know better than to air such a rotten story in these troubled times. Every American everything is experiencing change, good and bad. The story sounded like an attempt to steal the newspaper industry's advertising dollars.
As amends to the press at large, CBS should share with us about troubled affiliates, decreasing viewership, layoffs across the industry and huge advertising losses.
Mark Gililland
Oklahoma - Reply to this comment
- It is true that times do change and once essential items such as horseshoes and buggy whips do fade away; however, I agree that for those of us of a certain age holding and reading a newspaper with a cup of coffee is preferable to trying to read off a screen. On the other hand, I do daily browse 5 newspapers on line. So what's the solution? I leave that to you bright young things to figure out. Meanwhile, I am back to the Sunday NY Times Magazine and another cup of coffee.
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- WastingtonDC: The 97% liberal press built this filthy political criminal class clubhouse, to subvert/replace our capitol city. Now, the success of their greatest triumphant overstep, the Messiah President, is being slow rolled by the real political criminals, and the real powers, of the disloyal majority. For far too long, far too many among the congress have become feckless profiteers, who literally care less about the last superpower, that happens to be the last bastion of individual liberty on this planet, as long as their jerrymandered, safe district seats, (safe from interference by the voters of America, that is), continue, and the special interests that purchased their lives, their fortunes, and their not quite so sacred honor, continue the gravy train. While we will miss the tiny percentage of paid writers who are not disloyal to a Republic made possible, and kept viable, by the blood of her citizen soldiers, and their mother's tears, there is a great justice coming, far too late, to the majority of hack writers who have failed in their duty to inform the public, in favor of deliberately shaping, and supporting, the socialist death spiral that now portends. The magnificent American peoples, brought low again, by the socialism that FDR employed to extend the great depression, until WWII, will, as soon as they endure the hard times long enough to get the message, throw the rascals out, reassert their sovereign citizen's voting powers, and buy very inexpensive hamburgers, from those 97% of the dishonored, and unemployed press that parked the tenets of journalism outside their liberal editor's office doors, and toss their trash into refuse containers steamed clean, by those mistaken editors, as our better angels prevail, once again. Good riddance!
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- You might as well ask republicans and conservatives about it too.
Posted by hungry1968-15 at 9:15 AM : Mar 29, 2009
That's a typically immature post. Kudos on posting consistently useless drivel.
Posted by erichsh at 9:26 AM : Mar 29, 2009
"Change with the times or die" is PERFECT advice for the GOP, as evidenced by the 2006 and 2008 elections.
And wait until 2010 and 2012!!!
The party of "NO!", is going to become the party of "BYE!" - Reply to this comment
- I have to agree with jckbrn, sadly ? and almost angrily when it comes to the demise of good language. It?s horrifying how poor the language of people whose business is words has become ? where?s it at, I?m good, etc. But I am getting off the subject. I still prefer to sit with my Sunday paper. I don?t like to read a long article on a screen. I like to be able to carry my reading around, read it at the lunch table or while waiting somewhere. I guess it?s a generational thing & the fact that my aging eyes can?t handle the smaller, more portable screens. I sometimes print out an article to read it more comfortably or more conveniently.
Sorry, longtree, but if you read newspapers, maybe you?d realize that sentences still begin with a capital letter. It makes things easier to (same to MizPeg) read ? if you care about getting your opinion across clearly. And as uninteresting as they are to you & me, weddings & high school games ARE local news in many towns. Everyone defines news in the context of their own lives. - Reply to this comment
- It wont be long till TV news is dumped too. Right now our local news channel runs the same news three times a day. Outdated before produced. If Television news programing cannot find a way to create verifiable, up to the minute news. It too will go the way of the internet.
Last week during a snow storm in Denver, the local news media decided to run a 5 hour broadcast of "snow" information. It's Denver, they only need to look outside their windows to see that it is snowing. But the local guys, thinking this was the "big one" couldn't keep themselves off the networks for 5 hours.
If it is not kiddy stories, it lost dogs. If it is not school plays, its whining Cutler or some other mindless tribute to the local community.
How Boring.
After all these guys work for the broadcast owners and really don't have to go out and get any real news. At night they stand by a deserted dovefield (as if the players were inside) and report on cutler news.
During the day, the helicopter flies over the city and reports on traffic... Dones it not accure to them, the persons in their cars coming home dont watch TV before or during their home commute.
So in short. Television News will find its own life sucked from it s boring soul. - Reply to this comment
- Losing print newspapers will be the end of responsible journalism and condemnation to a world without history. Just think, in 25 years when you are researching a topic, where are you going to go? No more newspaper archives in libraries. Sure, go online and see what exists. Web pages are not archived. We'll be relying on "facts" that have no reputable original sources behind them. At least with newspaper journalism the writers have to be somewhat accountable for what they write. Online, anyone can make up facts, post them and hide behind an electronic psuedonym. In 25 years GWB will look like a hero because you can search Google using "Iraq" and "weapons of mass desstruction" as keywords and find more than 4 million sites that say 500 WMDs were found in Iraq thus justifying the $1.5 trillion war (oh, I just made up that fact too). Must be true because I found it on the Fox News website. Goodbye history, some of us will miss you.
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- We are New Jersey's all-online daily local newspaper, http://www.TheAlternativePress.com
We launched in October and have received over 4,000,000 hits since we launched. We have over 90 paid reporters on staff and more than a dozen columnists.
Unlike blogs, we adhere to the principles of journalism and are a full-service newspaper - - the only difference is we are all-online...and we're actually making money.
If newspapers are looking for a new model that works, look at http://www.TheAlternativePress.com
Sincerely,
Michael M. Shapiro
Editor, The Alternative Press
http://www.TheAlternativePress.com
Editor@TheAlternativePress.com - Reply to this comment
- The newspaper will never be replaced. After all, did you ever try to swat a fly with a website? And how would you discipline your pooch? With a rolled up...keyboard??
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- You might as well ask republicans and conservatives about it too.
Posted by hungry1968-15 at 9:15 AM : Mar 29, 2009
That's a typically immature post. Kudos on posting consistently useless drivel. - Reply to this comment
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