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- paraforce, on 04/01/2009, -1/+35Ha, bet the Trib was happy to report this...
- wonderchemist, on 03/31/2009, -8/+34Times change. Newspapers are almost as outdated as a town crier.
- vspazv, on 04/01/2009, -3/+28LIVE BREAKING NEWS! (Previously Recorded)
- lilamae, on 04/01/2009, -2/+25I'm sixty and I read digg. You are an ageist!
- frontaxle, on 04/01/2009, -8/+28Demographics. Our parents read papers. I read Digg.
- inactive, on 04/01/2009, -4/+16uh, advertisements make them 10x more money than classifieds. Auto dealerships were bread and buttah, but that's gone
- inactive, on 04/01/2009, -1/+12First thing that came to my mind was Roger Ebert. I must be a simpleton.
- stereosaurus, on 04/01/2009, -0/+11Classifieds actually were a pretty sizable, and moreover very reliable, source of income, and as the OP stated are now all but entirely gone as a result of sites like Craigslist.
/former newspaper employee - acmaurer, on 03/31/2009, -1/+11FTA: "The bankruptcy comes on the heels of a proxy fight that led to the ouster earlier this year of almost all of Sun-Times Media's former board members, and the subsequent exit of CEO Cyrus Freidheim, the turnaround expert brought in two years earlier to revive the company's fortunes."
It's amazing they've been around as long as they have! - seandfeeney, on 04/01/2009, -0/+9On a national and global scale, yes but, not on a local scale.
- TheManikin, on 04/01/2009, -3/+10Say what you will about how newspapers are how newspapers are outdated and whatnot, but their is something I enjoy about sitting down and reading one at breakfast.
- Kahnza, on 04/01/2009, -1/+8Buried for "breaking"
- Mankind121, on 04/01/2009, -3/+10BREAKING: The inevitable happened
- williepepper, on 04/01/2009, -4/+11I was going to post a comment but then realized how irrelevant the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper was.
- eramos, on 04/01/2009, -9/+15***** not the Chicago Sun-Times, now who will provide hard hitting AP reprints and outdated weather reports?!?!?!?!
Oh wait, probably the 2038520385 other newspapers which will soon be following in their wake - Cthulhu2008, on 04/01/2009, -1/+7Not to be a grammar nazi, but your going to a spelling camp
- begbegbegbegbeg, on 04/01/2009, -1/+7Perhaps if you read a good paper more often, you'd learn the correct use of the apostrophe.
- dmanmax99, on 04/01/2009, -4/+9This is my newspaper, I'm sad to see this :(
- TheManikin, on 04/01/2009, -0/+4Holy hell, just look at his history........this guy gets commented on for almost everything he writes.....
- DudeInAustin, on 04/01/2009, -0/+4Newspapers allowed themselves to believe they were smarter than their readers and, as such, they could belittle their readers' politics, insult their philosophic and religious beliefs, and that the (paying) customer was always wrong. They didn't need folks like me to read them (they thought), and then they discovered (too late) that folks like me decided - in large number- to leave them unread.
- Kugelblitze, on 04/01/2009, -0/+4Newspapers were forced to put up web pages with current content to compete with blogs and other news sources. Unfortunately they have not found a viable way to monetize that content and so they keep slipping deeper into the hole.
Also, as far as I know (IANAL) no one files for bankruptcy as the headline states. They file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as in it's meant to keep them from actually *becoming* bankrupt. Small point, but thought I should mention it. - rileyhallwood, on 04/01/2009, -2/+6i dont really care about the paper but WHAT HAPPENS TO ANDY IHNATKO?
- wakeupsticky, on 04/01/2009, -0/+3Wow, getting dugg down for enjoying the simple pleasures in life.
I, too, like to spread one out on a table and read it while I eat. - tardmaster, on 04/01/2009, -2/+5'your'? If you were going for sarcasm you missed taking advantage of additional homophones in your response. Therefore I must brand you with fail.
- enantiodromia, on 04/01/2009, -0/+3there are more trees now than there were a hundred years ago.
newspapers are the #1 most recycled item.
one large datacenter consumes more power than most small towns. - NorthMass, on 04/01/2009, -3/+6Please don't bail them out.
- slickmick, on 04/01/2009, -0/+3Another domino in the corrupt, dying, lying corporate media falls.
hooray! - blindhammer, on 04/01/2009, -1/+4Perhaps many newspapers would be doing better if the FCC rulings on media ownership in a market were not relaxed a decade ago.
- bobhellbringer, on 04/01/2009, -0/+3APRIL FOOLS....... no? who cares......
- Hetman, on 04/01/2009, -0/+3I agree. I think one of the major problems though is that they waited so long to get on the net. By time they actually decided to provide a service on the net there were already many other news site on the net to compete with.
- wamitch, on 04/01/2009, -0/+3"2 thumbs down!" - Roger Ebert
- jerstud56, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2ass*
- rileyhallwood, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2first thing i thought of was andy ihnatko.
- darkane, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2That was my first thought. But I think it will be good for all, because Andy will find a better place to share his infinite wisdom with us. Here's hoping he'll just move to Petaluma and be on TWiT full time.
- lhbaker, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2That was completely unintelligible.
- bdbr, on 04/01/2009, -1/+3Ironically, you're saying this in reference to an article from The Chicago Tribune...a newspaper.
- 12D3, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2You're going to have some egg on your face when they come out and say it was an epic April Fools joke.
"We're doing better than ever, actually" - wakeupsticky, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2Or if there was no Internet.
- frieddonuts, on 04/01/2009, -1/+3Enjoy your spam from either the radical left or right, and lolcats.
Though I must admit that digg has satisfied my need for goats and bacon. - Konrad9, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2For the umpteenmillionth time, paper used for books, newspapers, and paper in general, come from trees grown specifically to be cut down and cut up in to that paper.
- dmanmax99, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2Why? Because the paper I've been reading since I learned to read is going away?
- chadtrichardson, on 07/03/2009, -0/+2People still read the newspaper. Die you dinosaurs :)
- Spudster, on 04/01/2009, -0/+2And the dominoes begin to fall...
- darkane, on 04/01/2009, -0/+1Maybe you should look at the submitted time instead of the made popular time.
- tdclark23, on 04/01/2009, -0/+1Actually demographics show younger folks, for the most part, don't pay attention to the news in any form.
Being a news addict is what brings me to digg. My first news pusher was a newspaper. I have moved on to harder news, but newspapers are the gateway news media. Ask any kid in an NIE classroom. Do they have the Weekly Reader any more? - draxenato, on 04/01/2009, -0/+1We're not celebrating the failure of newspapers per se, and all the associated fallout, we're celebrating the rise of new technologies and applications. There's a lot of geeks here on digg and this is our thing.
This was an inevitable change anyway, whether it happened on Bush' watch, Obama's or the next guy's didn't matter. These closures in the facing of declining sales can't have come as any surprise, you just have to look at the nature of the www and realise that newspapers and magazines are gonna die off.
Journalism is still around, who do you think writes all these online stories ? The medium may have changed, which is bad news for the printers I guess, but the message still needs to written, edited and photographed. - enantiodromia, on 04/01/2009, -1/+2so i guess you didn't know what "gospel" meant, and now you are digging me down because you are ashamed of yourself.
that's cool. - tdclark23, on 04/01/2009, -0/+1I doubt if any professional journalist feels joy in reporting a story like this.
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