Comments on: The End of Print Media

By: Learning Remix, Winter 2009

Learning Remix, Winter 2009 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:26:59 +0000

The end of print media not yet!!...

The end of print media is near. As it has been mentioned earlier by someone in a blog post it is certain that the print media will not last long. The wired world is readin very less of print media.......

By: Eneils Bailey

Eneils Bailey — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:42:42 +0000

On the other hand, the big paper I used to live near, the Raleigh News and Observer, occasionally does really good investigative journalism, and that will disappear when they go out of business.

Yeah
But,
I used to live near, the Raleigh News and Observer, occasionally does really good investigative journalism, and that will disappear when they go out of business.
And yeah,
You would disappear from your current job if you took it on yourself to do a good job, occasionally.
Get a grip, the world is tough, if you can man up.

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By: steve s

steve s — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:38:34 +0000

I run into the local yokels complaining occasionally about being called by the Gainesville Sun to get a subscription. They describe how they lectured the poor telemarketer (who they didn't understand was almost certainly not an employee of the paper, but some poor schlub at a call center making $8/hr) that "If ya'll wouldn't be suh lib'ral I'd get a subscription blah blah blah..." all this nonsense from some semi-literate redneck on his high horse. Newspapers are dying primarily because their income depends on selling expensive, hard-to-search, local classifieds, and craigslist came along and destroyed that business model. I'm of mixed feelings. On the one hand, I can now run lots of cheap, lengthy ads online, which is good for my math tutoring business, instead of having to pay hundreds a month for a scrawny classified ad. On the other hand, the big paper I used to live near, the Raleigh News and Observer, occasionally does really good investigative journalism, and that will disappear when they go out of business.

By: Dantheman

Dantheman — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:27:15 +0000

That article has a dateline of February 24. The Inqy has been delivered to my house every day since then, including this morning. So as a starting point, he is wrong on the specifics.

Indeed, they are only looking to the bankruptcy process to do two things so far -- create a fiction that they are combining the Inqy and the Daily News into a single paper, mostly to reduce their annual cost to run AP stories, and cramdown the debt the owner took on when he bought the paper from McClatchy 2 years ago. The other methods of cost cutting, both towards the union pressmen and reducing head count in the writers' room took place before bankruptcy.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:55:41 +0000

After the media's performance in the 2008 election - good riddance.

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:19:44 +0000

My prediction still stands - I think at some point, the Times is going to revert to a paid-subscription requirement for their on-line access, like what the Wall Street Journal has kept for much of their on-line newspaper (more specifically, the financial section). They'll lose a lot of readers online because of that, but they'll probably regain a steady source of income, and supplement that income when the print editions finally go moribund. Tom Tomorrow actually has a funny, somewhat bitter-edged "This Modern World" comic on this that is pretty good.

By: Eneils Bailey

Eneils Bailey — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:22:46 +0000

Internationally, the situation is not that much different. The wired world is reading fewer newspapers and, as publishers compensate by raising newstand prices, more readers are driven away. We are left with cable and satellite television, Internet media, and other evolving approaches.

Yeah, all of that is true. But you forgot one component of this equation.....
People don't want to preached to, in news articles and off the editorial page about what great intellectual sloths they are for just raising their families, paying their bills, going to church on Sunday, teaching their children right from wrong...etc...etc...

The transition from horse and buggy is a metaphor for today's print media.

Just as the motorized society left less crap in the streets; the modern day media transition has led to at least a variety of what crap you want to mentally digest.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:09:07 +0000

The loss of print in books magazines and newspapers means the loss of historical perspective.These things have stood immutable in the face of those wishing to change history for centuries.
Their loss is tragic.
The past can now be changed with a keystroke.
None of those embarrassing witnesses in print,or those tedious book burnings.
How tidy!
A book shelf is cold storage, the Internet is a huge garbage can!
Each has enormous capacity to store information, but the loss of print simply makes the revisionist's job that much easier.
The people can now be "re-VISIONed" at will,leaving everyone with an Orwellian view...."except pigs"

By: Brian Knapp

Brian Knapp — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:05:12 +0000

Print media's still around?

By: Blue Chip Penny Stocks

Blue Chip Penny Stocks — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:36:00 +0000