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Outcry after NOLA's daily paper cuts back

January 6, 2013 4:00 PM

The Times-Picayune moves to a three-day-a-week publishing schedule, causing New Orleans to be the largest U.S. city without a daily paper. Morley Safer reports.

Outcry after NOLA's daily paper cuts back
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by nickp91 January 12, 2013 10:47 AM EST
Interesting 60 Minutes piece about the Times Picayune & future of journalism
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by eroteme2 January 10, 2013 5:36 PM EST
Not a big problem. There are not that many people in New Orleans who read or can read.
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by CMH64 January 10, 2013 4:21 PM EST
I was shocked to hear Mr. Safer ask, "Who would be foolish enough to buy a newspaper (company)?" Perhaps he should ask that to Mr. Warren Buffet, who owns 88 newspapers, and just purchased 63 of those last spring.

Carol Horton
Marketing Director
The Buffalo News
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by remand2 January 9, 2013 6:07 PM EST
In regard to your "Times-Picayune" piece, I was somewhat dismayed by the absence of anyone in your piece mentioning one of the most valuable aspects of printed news; The mere fact that it is printed on paper.

That might on the surface not seem like much, but consider all the possible ways you might have been exposed to a news story (shy of being involved in one);

1 - You read it in the paper
2 - You saw it on a TV News broadcast
3 - You heard it on the radio
4 - You read it on the internet
5 - You heard it through the grapevine

Unfortunately none of these are a guarantee the whole unbiased truth, but if you think about where your best bet might come from, I would bet on the newspaper.

Your story was very thorough in following all the time, blood, sweat, and cost it takes to get a paper hand delivered to it's destination. In fact, of all the avenues listed above, the paper story takes the longest to execute (with TV a very close second). With this in mind, it stands to reason that a story's reliability, relevance, and value are going to be called into check more times before it can be awarded the permanence, and limited space afforded in a printed newspaper.

I dread the day when printed news is gone forever. There has to be a much stronger conviction in a story than it might be afforded in the digital world, where legitimate stories often get lost in a sea of unreliable sources and knee-jerk reactions hastily thrown into the fray.


Jonathan Siegel
W Hollywood, CA
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by theMindofMarisa January 8, 2013 2:19 PM EST
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by dman6015 January 8, 2013 2:04 PM EST
Newhouse just did it to our local paper (medium-sized metro) on Jan. 1st. "Oh, you can just go on the Internet and read the "paper" online every day."
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by cbsblogger January 8, 2013 1:50 PM EST
This represents another aspect of the outrageous downside that media consolidation has done to America. It has not only ruined the former voice of the independent watchdog press, but has caused formerly diligent independent newspapers to be managed with a broad brush that only magnifies corporate incompetence of the umbrella organization. Newhouse has done the same to other newspapers that they've bought in other towns and cities.
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by SeTLibsStr8 January 7, 2013 8:47 PM EST
Yeah, blame it on the internet. But maybe, just MAYBE its possible that people dont really want to read that liberal garbage anymore. The Houston Chronicle is well on its way down for that reason too...
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by henriandre January 7, 2013 7:00 PM EST
Again the Advocate and the Morning Advocate do their job by REPORTING and INVESTIGATING for the public good while Times-"Toilet-Paper"/Pickyournose" Picayune runs the pap and tat from Mr. Amoss saying what a success it is (ah the 60 minutes piece is his reason why; what a load of manure!)....Mr. Amoss your lousy useless paper IGNORES the news even more than before! and the T-P ignores the environmental disaster at Bayou Corne...raspberries to and down with the the Times-Picayune

http://theadvocate.com/home/4844113-125/petition-requests-white-house-action?fb_action_ids=10151167348342260&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
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by henriandre January 7, 2013 6:57 PM EST
Again the Advocate and the Morning Advocate do their job by REPORTING and INVESTIGATING for the public good while Times-"Toilet-Paper"/Pickyournose" Picayune runs the pap and tat from Mr. Amoss saying what a success it is (ah the 60 minutes piece is his reason why; what a load of manure!)....Mr. Amoss your lousy useless paper IGNORES the news even more than before! and the T-P ignores the environmental disaster at Bayou Corne...raspberries to and down with the the Times-Picayune

http://theadvocate.com/home/4844113-125/petition-requests-white-house-action?fb_action_ids=10151167348342260&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
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