Comments on: Free Internet news! Free! (But at what cost?)

By: What happens when a one-newspaper town becomes a no-newspaper town? | Scholars and Rogues

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:16:44 +0000

[...] follow. Journalists at the Post-Intelligencer, the Rocky Mountain News, and the Citizen joined the 10,000 print newsies downsized or bought out from print newsrooms over the past few decade. Media pundits (including me) cluck-cluck incessantly [...]

By: Journalists need to explain why ‘experts’ missed gasoline price hike | Scholars and Rogues

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 01:03:25 +0000

[...] I forgot. The newspaper industry has been shedding experienced journalists for nearly a decade. Perhaps there’s no one left to consistently and expertly report on [...]

By: Business side gets raises; newsroom side doesn’t | Scholars and Rogues

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:34:41 +0000

[...] journalists. It has divested itself of the producers of its product by the thousands — 5,900 journalists lost their jobs in 2008 — and given little financial incentive through salary increases to those who [...]

By: Yo, Rupert: Think that ‘pay wall’ will work? | Scholars and Rogues

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:32:54 +0000

[...] the amount of newsprint required. In 1990 America’s daily newspapers had 56,900 staffers; 5,900 journalists lost their jobs in 2008; and thousands more have been whacked this year. And it’s the expensive high end of the [...]

By: Canadian Visitor

Canadian Visitor — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:23:46 +0000

It will indeed be a shame if the print media disappears. They are the ones who employ all the people that most blogs link to. Will all bloggers now go out and dig up any info or do reporting on their own? I doubt it unless they are the really big blogs with the big important names. But even one big one that comes to mind, is mainly all pro democratic political postings. What else is a shame is that now no one looks at news as news anymore, in political matters anyway, unless it is through the political prism of which party you belong to. Nobody wants to hear an opposing view anymore and in reading the blog posts by people either at individual blog sites or major paper’s online sites, it is always now the same constant theme – always attack the messenger and avoid the message. It appears that the major thrust is to demean any other poster who doesn’t agree with you. And in all honesty, even though my husband and I are both liberals, it is the democrats who seem to be the more demeaning doing exactly what they said they hated republicans for doing. Who is going to be left to cover all the “non political” news? What happens if you are not in a situation to own a computer or afford the internet? I think a lot of papers are in trouble because people have stopped buying them if they feel they aren’t loyal to their political ideals. If they don’t print only for good things about their party or candidate etc., then they are no good, or biased. In reality too many times, the article isn’t biased but the reader is. Anyway, that’s my opinion.

By: Fascist Nation

Fascist Nation — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:09:23 +0000

“What kind of business model allows me to consume a product for free?”

The kind that has no printing costs, and sells ads like a newspaper does.

How is that buggy whip stock doing Dinosaur?

By: Who Cares

Who Cares — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:24:42 +0000

Why should we care about newspapers? or for that matter, any organized media organization that was entrusted by us to tell us the TRUTH, and hence, decided to do the corporatist thing and LIE TO US ABOUT THE PAST 46 YEARS OF U.S. HISTORY.

so, I ask, who the hell cares if they fold? I don’t. I am tired of watching bullshit, lies, and info-tainment on the ‘lobotomizer’ that sits in most living rooms and occupies the walls in most bars.

let them die. really. I think it’s time to say that we can find our own news on the web, we don’t need it force fed to us with pablum. Screw the papers and the media outlets, they made their beds. let them lay in them. Bye Bye, MSM. BYE!!!! good riddance!!! adios!!!

By: Russ Wellen

Russ Wellen — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:35:18 +0000

I’m ready to pay or subscribe to a service. Should I be unable to afford it, I’ll be sad, but I’ll accept that’s the way it has to be.

By: fikshun

fikshun — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:52:23 +0000

Dear God. It scares me that journalism students are essentially going to school to learn how to be corporate mouthpieces these days.

Again, I’m showing my naivete but why aren’t these papers doing NPR style pledge drives? Why aren’t these papers making paypal type donation addresses common knowledge? I would gladly donate to these major news sources if they made it easier to do so. Maybe I’m dumb, but I have a feeling a lot of people with at least a little disposable income understand the value of what they provide and want to do their part; but I’ll be damned if they don’t make it hard for me to do so. I am the internet generation. Get in my face. Everyone else does!

Glad to see you on here again. I really missed your posts!

By: jeff watson

jeff watson — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:47:26 +0000

Good post/

Jeff