The local newspaper may fold?

Chip McFlennigan
Chip McFlennigan Posts: 1,162
edited July 2010 in All Encompassing Trip
Oh, bad puns.

However, good riddance to information.
I knew it all along, see?
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  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    what local newspaper is this

    sadly this is becoming the trend for a dying(newspaper) industry

    damn internet
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  • ZiggyStar
    ZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    I do all my news reading online
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  • I can't read or write.
    I knew it all along, see?
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    ZiggyStar wrote:
    I do all my news reading online
    Same here.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    metsfan wrote:
    what local newspaper is this

    sadly this is becoming the trend for a dying(newspaper) industry

    damn internet
    Saving trees and creating less garbage is hardly sad.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    It's unfortunate for the people who have jobs at the places that print and deliver the papers but on the other hand it WILL save a lot of paper.
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  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    2 FAMILY members work for the ny post...bite your tounge
    i post on the board of a band that doesn't exsist anymore .......i need my head examined.......
  • Screw jobs. Welfare is where it's at.
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  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    metsfan wrote:
    what local newspaper is this

    sadly this is becoming the trend for a dying(newspaper) industry

    damn internet
    Saving trees and creating less garbage is hardly sad.
    that's easy for you to say when you don't work in the industry and have to worry bout not having a job like i fucking do. thousands upon thousands of people are outta jobs cause newspaper industry is dying. i could rattle off a buncha newspaper that have closed but i don't you'd give a fuck.

    so you like getting your "news" from a "writer" who doesn't a have fucking lick of basic knowledge bout journalism. you and many others are the reason why the journalist industry is dead but yet will still criticize a internet writer for being clueless.
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  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    http://newspaperdeathwatch.com/

    *
    R.I.P.
    US metropolitan dailies that have closed since this site was created in March, 2007

    Tucson Citizen

    Rocky Mountain News

    Baltimore Examiner

    Kentucky Post

    Cincinnati Post

    King County Journal

    Union City Register-Tribune

    Halifax Daily News

    Albuquerque Tribune

    South Idaho Press

    San Juan Star

    Honolulu Advertiser
    *
    W.I.P.
    Works In Progress: Former print dailies that have adopted hybrid online/print or online-only models.

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    Capital Times

    Detroit News/Free Press

    Christian Science Monitor

    East Valley Tribune

    Ann Arbor News

    Flint Journal; Bay City Times; Saginaw News

    Catskill Daily Mail & Hudson Register-Star



    but hey lets save those trees eh LAO. i guess trees are more important then the american employment rate. i can't wait till your jobless and struggle to make ends meat. maybe only then will you get through your brain.
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    metsfan wrote:


    but hey lets save those trees eh LAO. i guess trees are more important then the american employment rate. i can't wait till your jobless and struggle to make ends meat. maybe only then will you get through your brain.
    Dude.. it sucks, but that's life. Times change. Things change. If you are a smart person, you will adapt like the rest of the world will. If there's no need for newspapers anymore, then there's no need. There's plenty of industries that have died, and there's plenty that will be born. The world has to adapt.. I would hope you'd posses the intelligence, where if you were to lose your job, you could start something new and offer your abilities in a different way to the world. I have faith in you.
  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    metsfan wrote:


    but hey lets save those trees eh LAO. i guess trees are more important then the american employment rate. i can't wait till your jobless and struggle to make ends meat. maybe only then will you get through your brain.
    Dude.. it sucks, but thats life. Times change. Things change. If you are a smart person, you will adapt like the rest of the world will. If there's no need for newspapers anymore, then there's no need. There's plenty of industries that have died, and there's plenty that will be born. The world has to adapt.
    being smart doesn't have anything to do with it when you can't find a job and have to go in another field or go back to college. yea it does suck having to take a 5% paycut and knowing you've on a sinking ship for some time now but still need that sinking ship to get by in life like i do.
    Ron: I just don't feel like going out tonight
    Sammi: Wanna just break up?

  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    metsfan wrote:
    metsfan wrote:


    but hey lets save those trees eh LAO. i guess trees are more important then the american employment rate. i can't wait till your jobless and struggle to make ends meat. maybe only then will you get through your brain.
    Dude.. it sucks, but thats life. Times change. Things change. If you are a smart person, you will adapt like the rest of the world will. If there's no need for newspapers anymore, then there's no need. There's plenty of industries that have died, and there's plenty that will be born. The world has to adapt.
    being smart doesn't have anything to do with it when you can't find a job and have to go in another field or go back to college. yea it does suck having to take a 5% paycut and knowing you've on a sinking ship for some time now but still need that sinking ship to get by in life like i do.
    Just be positive. Give it all to keep your job alive, but understand there is a bigger picture. It would suck not having a job, but you can survive, and make the best of the little things.

    I never found a job that represented my degree and ended up doing something else, but I am grateful for what I have and how I adapted. If you try hard enough, you will find a job. I live in Illinois, a very fucked up state and besides one buddy who works in construction, I have no unemployed friends, many who've had no problem finding new jobs.. you just have to keep your nose up.
  • 81
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    papers have been dying for a long time and will continue to do so. they need to get with the times and publish on line or they will dye. and before we feel bad, less we forget about all the jobs lost in buggy making. it's evolution baby.


    an old ceo once said, you are either growing or you are dying. papers are dying.

    but i still by one every few weeks when i go to lunch. i prefer to read a rag to read it on my phone....but these new superphones and tablets (ipad) is only going to speed the process of print papers demise.

    it's the truth, to deny is to stick your head in the sand.
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    81 wrote:
    papers have been dying for a long time and will continue to do so. they need to get with the times and publish on line or they will dye. and before we feel bad, less we forget about all the jobs lost in buggy making. it's evolution baby.


    an old ceo once said, you are either growing or you are dying. papers are dying.

    but i still by one every few weeks when i go to lunch. i prefer to read a rag to read it on my phone....but these new superphones and tablets (ipad) is only going to speed the process of print papers demise.

    it's the truth, to deny is to stick your head in the sand.
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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    i've worked for a music company for the last 18 years, you wana talk about a dying business.
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    less we forget blockbuster?
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    i still get the sunday inquirer delivered....read everything else on my phone mostly though.
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  • matabele
    matabele Posts: 277
    Why don't newspapers start transferring their stuff to digital, ipads and such things are going to be the new newspapers. Sure the printing presses would stop and many would be out of a job but couldn't most of those people be retrained for the digital production.
  • milarso
    milarso Posts: 1,280
    matabele wrote:
    Why don't newspapers start transferring their stuff to digital, ipads and such things are going to be the new newspapers. Sure the printing presses would stop and many would be out of a job but couldn't most of those people be retrained for the digital production.

    Almost every newspaper has.
    It has just been difficult to find a way to make money with the new format.
    However, digital advertising is evolving, and I am sure many companies will find a way to make digital news profitable.
    It just may not be as profitable as the print industry.
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