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- stix213, on 02/27/2009, -2/+28The print newspaper industry just hasn't bothered adapting to the times. They still act like they are breaking news to people days later.
Who the hell wants to pay for yesterday's news?
They need to change their business model to accept that everyone already knows the day before what they would be printing. Focus instead on in depth coverage of local and national issues. Do real investigative reporting you can't get from the AP wire. Give you something you can't already get from cnn.com the day before!
But instead most of these papers have just gotten thinner, fired many of their investigative reporters and just started reposting yesterday's AP stories, and really have taken the value out of their products all in the name of cost cutting. - designingartist, on 02/27/2009, -3/+28That's just sad.
- gsthomas606, on 02/27/2009, -5/+18This is sad like a typewriter or horse and buggy company closing down. Printed news papers are increasingly obsolete and a waste of paper.
- AmyVernon, on 02/27/2009, -1/+14It is; two-newspaper towns are much better served. The competition makes everyone stay on their toes and make sure they're first with the news.
- FlaG8r, on 02/27/2009, -1/+11To me the problem isn't with the loss of printed newspapers themselves, it's with the loss of employment for investigative reporters. Who's going to be checking up on city hall?
- vroom101, on 02/27/2009, -1/+11Video: "Final Edition" by Rocky Mountain News at http://vimeo.com/3390739
Via http://www.rockymountainnews.com/ - ltethe, on 02/27/2009, -2/+10On the one hand. Great, newspapers are not relevant to today's society... On the other hand, watching these pillars of the old society fall is somewhat sad.
- momzilla54, on 02/27/2009, -3/+10Well, it is - but has anyone else noticed that by the time something is actually printed in a newspaper we have already seen it on Digg two days before? This is true for the papers around here, and USA Today that I have noticed.
- pharmokan, on 02/27/2009, -2/+8publication industry is *****
- j3ph, on 02/28/2009, -2/+7Obsolete medium or not, the newspaper industry provides a very valuable resource called journalistic integrity. Something most bloggers don't understand.
- NicoNicoNico, on 02/28/2009, -0/+4I agree. There's a local paper around here that posts about once a week, but they only have one writer. I offered to work there for free, but they didn't even bother to look at my resume. Instead, they want to cover breaking news like how someone hit a deer two days before, or someone caught a bobcat in a live trap. (Wow! That news is so breaking, it might snap your neck!) Yet they won't cover any relevant issues, like how the next town over is providing free wireless for about a quarter of their residents, yet cable and DSL skip over a few houses (like ours!) when laying down cable for this area because it's "good enough". When they had local elections, no one knew the people's positions because no one bothered to publish what they were (!). I had to take a random guess because there was nothing in the papers or online about any of them, not even where their campaign headquarters were located.
Then again, I hate small towns with a passion. I miss when the Washington Post was my source for local news. :( - stix213, on 02/28/2009, -0/+4Doesn't a dial-up internet account cost the same as a monthly newspaper subscription? And you can practically get a 6 year old computer for next to free now that can run Firefox and WinXP just fine.
Sorry grandma, but you've had about two decades to get hip to this magical computer thingy. Its your own fault if you hate learning. - lisaawesome, on 02/27/2009, -1/+5If my local newspaper wasn't so ***** I would definitely read it for local news. It's harder to find local stuff online especially when you live in some random little suburb. Sadly though the Edmond Sun is written by 3rd graders and the Daily Oklahoman is run by a bunch of bad GOP stereotypes. I just want to know what's going on around town!
- BlackJackJester, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4I still prefer reading a newspaper to hunching over a computer screen. Having a physical copy is something that will never be completely obsolete...well, not for a while at least.
- BlackJackJester, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4it's quite sad (being raised right outside of Denver), but this is how free markets work. Newspapers were struggling even in good economic times, so it's not terribly surprising.
- Gizmort, on 02/28/2009, -1/+4I always like when reporters trumpet the "Bloggers don't check their facts" arguments. Mainstream media screws up all the time and is never apologetic for it.
- omenz, on 02/28/2009, -0/+3Wheres the bailout for them? huh?
- mozillauser, on 02/28/2009, -0/+3I grew up with this paper. Man it is depressing to see something about 150 years old shut down.
- fotoman607, on 02/27/2009, -2/+5I used to work here...it was one of the best news organizations in the country.
- inactive, on 03/01/2009, -0/+3Oh, that bailout is called "The Fairness Doctrine". Google around and you'll find a Pajamas Media piece that revealed that many people in the industry voted for Obama because they thought that mandated viewpoint "fairness" would keep the newspapers alive.
- SodaForJones, on 02/28/2009, -0/+3You try telling that to a woman who still threatens to hit you with a wooden spoon when you back-sass.
- bblande, on 02/28/2009, -0/+3They are breaking news if what's printed in the paper is a scoop as the result of good investigative journalism.
- mu0p, on 02/28/2009, -0/+3True, but with the demise of traditional media outlets with budgets to pay for seasoned investigative journalists, journalistic integrity might become obsolete along with newspapers. Blogs are great for aggregating news from different sources, but how many blogs have reporters out in the field doing investigative work of their own with a strong journalistic foundation?
- SodaForJones, on 02/27/2009, -2/+4What upsets me most about this is that my grandmother gets this paper. She doesn't have a computer or the internet. She can't afford any of the local internet services and just plan doesn't want to "mess with" a computer. I don't know what she's going to do but I'm sure a slurry of angry letters from a 75 year old woman will be flooding into there mail boxes.
Then again there's always TV. - OutpostNetwork, on 02/27/2009, -2/+4Unfortunately this is a trend that will continue with any of the print mediums.
- lisaawesome, on 02/28/2009, -0/+2I hate that local politics is almost completely ignored!! Hardly anyone knows anything about their city government when that is precisely where individuals make a HUGE difference and where issues directly affect you. I think that's just one of many great areas a local paper could seriously cover. We could use some stronger community values today. Globalization has done some good things but it's like we've decided our communities aren't as important as countries across the globe. Who can name the president of Iran (or at least get the beginning sorta right in his case) and their local mayor?
- ltethe, on 02/28/2009, -1/+3um riiigggghhht.
Journalistic integrity is a relatively new concept for newspapers, witness yellow journalism, and the Hearst papers that dominated the US 1880-1940.
They may display integrity compared to blogging today, but the concept is not ingrained in newspaper culture, - NicoNicoNico, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1Or maybe they wouldn't budge from old technology. They always say, "Get with the times or GTFO."
- stix213, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1@SodaForJones
Ha, that's pretty funny about the wooden spoon.
Well I guess she'll just have to figure out what to do then. Its just too bad she didn't try learning to use a computer when she had more time to learn slowly. - farboo, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1No wonder they went out of business. A newspaper that doesn't fold is way too cumbersome.
- NicoNicoNico, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1My grandmother had trouble with figuring out her TV. She dropped satellite because it was too complicated for her. She would have never handled the internet or computers, especially not dial-up access.
- stix213, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1I'm really curious what the few people who dugg me down are thinking? That the newspaper industry is actually on the right track but just misunderstood?
- OneySeal, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1Another publication shut down. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
- joeMurphy, on 02/27/2009, -2/+3Historical photos of the Rocky: http://digg.com/business_finance/Photo_gallery_Roc ...
- kirb59y, on 02/27/2009, -2/+3Actually 2 months short of 150.. salt in the wound
- inactive, on 03/01/2009, -0/+1And sadly, that rarely happens.
- inactive, on 03/01/2009, -1/+2Now, now. They'll issue that retraction on page 21-D in five-point type. What more do you want? /sarc
- inactive, on 03/01/2009, -1/+2Bahahahaha! Journalistic integrity is a catchphrase designed to sell newspapers. And oh, bloggers? Nearly all of them allow you to contact them PERSONALLY when they screw up. Just try that with a newspaper. They'll print a retraction in small type on page 21-D. I've yet to know a blogger that will do that kind of cowardly hiding.
You are so ignorant that it hurts. - Hortnon, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1The Post and News had agreements years ago to split the responsibility. It was actually kind of cool - Every Sunday would be the other paper, so you could switch back and forth. Then I think it switched to just one of them for everyone.
- mu0p, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1I believe this is the paper that Kotaku's editor Brian Crecente writes for. Funny how while Kotaku is a wildly popular example of a new media outlet, the place where Crecente cut his teeth is going under.
- Frnnkdlxx, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1How so? You're here. ***** 'em. If they weren't already financially defunct, it meant that they weren't doing their job anyways. As evidenced at the massive systemic corruption permeating the entirety of this massive nation. It's pretty hard not to find something criminal or corrupt going on. AGAIN proving the case of us truthers. It's not just 9/11 we rant about. The systems *****. and why cry about dying dinosaurs. Just imagine how many family members of yours they've eaten as a metaphore by how little they've reported significant topics like massive child sex kidnapping and slavery by the cia.
- Hortnon, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1Which is more likely to have some sort of journalistic integrity?
I'm sure that's a debate in and of itself... - Hurricane, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1The Web has had the potential to kill printed news since it was invented, I am surprised that it took almost 19 years to finally start happening.
- AmyVernon, on 03/01/2009, -0/+1They weren't struggling in good economic times. They were making higher profits than any other industry for decades.
- Hurricane, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1The same reporters working for a web based local newspaper.
- banderwocky, on 03/04/2009, -0/+1It's amusing to me you find glee in your fellow Americans loosing their jobs. Typical.
Over half the country voted the other way buddy. The GOP is struggling right now. There are more people in the center than the left or the right as much as you would like believe. - inactive, on 03/01/2009, -1/+1I can't say that I care much. They chose to be obsolete by not providing original CONTENT. And content is always king. Recycled AP stories != content.
- cejones, on 02/27/2009, -3/+3If they were run by competent people, over the course of 150 years, they could have built up a nice investment cushion to get them through the lean times. But instead, they most likely piled their money into expansion which led them to over-extension and the inability to pay their debts.
Every company should do this if they want to survive longer than the lifespan of its founders. -
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