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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 12:37 PM Original message |
'Several Cities' Could Have No Daily Paper As Soon As 2010, Credit Rater Says |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. I work in the newspaper biz (although thankfully I'm about to get out)....... |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 12:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Are the main problems... |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 12:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Yes and yes.....and the inability to translate the increased use of their websites into ad dollars. |
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gauguin57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 12:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
31. I got out several years ago ... and my former colleagues are all nervous as hell these days. |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 10:24 AM Response to Reply #1 |
29. I got out in August. Good luck to you! |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
2. Hope we're one of them |
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Soylent Brice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 01:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. ! |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 02:07 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Here's the choices |
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Soylent Brice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 07:00 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. wow. you weren't kidding. |
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bulloney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
5. Radio advertising's in decline. Newspapers are dying out. |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
6. We don't need the newspapers anymore |
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Mudoria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 12:59 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. And news on the internet isn't just as slanted? |
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Buck Laser (566 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 01:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Some of us depend on the daily comics page for insight... |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 01:06 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Well, being a guy without internet access at my plac |
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Lautremont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 01:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. It is very difficult to clean my monitor after I do the crossword. |
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Dark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 09:33 AM Response to Reply #6 |
28. Where do you think most of the news comes from? Bloggers? |
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Old Codger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
12. Yup |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
14. Most newspapers are horrible |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
15. media going green,save a forest and landfill space at the same time nt |
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Juneboarder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:14 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Don't you love it??? |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
17. I'm sorry, but the laptop just isn't a good substitute in the bathroom. I want my newspaper. |
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juno jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I think the other 20% |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 09:15 AM Response to Reply #17 |
27. Really? |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 06:44 PM Response to Reply #17 |
39. Time to move to an iPhone! They're easily portable into the bathroom! (NT) |
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Oak2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
19. In the end they won't die |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
20. So where do people turn for serious information regarding their city, state governments? |
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ramapo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 04:33 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Not to be cynical |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 12:44 PM Response to Reply #20 |
32. Exactly. This will create a void in local reporting that ... |
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ramapo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
21. It has been a long time coming |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
23. People pay for DU, and for lots of other sites on the Internet, voluntarily. |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
25. pet parakeets highly concerned about lack of sanitation facilities EOM |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-04-08 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
26. This sucks |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 11:09 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. What will I read.... |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 01:49 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. oops wrong place |
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FriendlyReminder (174 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
33. I canceled my subscription long long ago when I realized it was nothing but |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
34. Gannet Just Released About 60 |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 01:50 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. 51 here at the Honolulu Advertiser |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
35. Newspapers put all their eggs in the Conservative basket |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-05-08 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
38. Hopefully, this won't be the end of journalism, only the delivery system. |
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