They think the RECESSION is the reason we aren't reading and buying them.
It's the LIES, morons!!!!!!!!!!
"The weekly battle; Alternative papers, like big dailies, cut back as ad sales slip" by Johnny Diaz, Globe Staff | March 4, 2009
With four major newspaper companies seeking bankruptcy protection in recent months, much attention has been focused on the dire straits that daily papers find themselves in. But weeklies are having a difficult time, too. The wilting economy and falling advertising revenue are forcing some of Boston's weekly papers to scale back dramatically....
(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha)
You gotta love the Globe! They are tanking and sinking, but they are pointing at the other guy saying he's in worse shape!!!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
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Despite the cutbacks, smaller publications are probably better positioned to survive a recession because of their niche audiences, which are attractive to some businesses that can't afford to buy ads in the bigger dailies, media observers say.
"By and large, the more local the newspaper, the more likely it is to weather this economic storm. All publications tend to ride this cycle of boom and bust by expanding and contracting as ad revenues allow," said Lou Ureneck, chairman of Boston University's journalism department.
Not around here. Our locals are sucking wind and going down.
When you can slide the paper under the door jam.... ugh!
This guy is a PROFESSOR, huh? How's the Ivory Tower, doc?
"This is a typical response in a recession. A reduction from four sections to two is a way to save production costs. Newspapers are well practiced in adapting to recessions."
Yeah, because they been GOING THROUGH ONE for the LAST TEN YEARS -- thanks to all the LIES THEY HAVE TOLD and STILL TELL EVERY DAMN DAY!!!!
Nor do smaller publications depend on national advertisers as much as the larger daily metropolitan papers do. Weeklies rely on neighborhood businesses, such as hardware stores or restaurants - yet those advertisers generally pull back as their customers spend less.
Didn't they just spend a couple paragraphs telling us weeklies aren't hurt as much?
"Small business is having a hard time," Ureneck said. "Typically, when a business faces financial difficulty, one of the first things to go is their advertising budget."
Unless they are CORPORATIONS, because there is a lot of over-priced slop on TV from bankrupt banks, etc, etc, etc. Yeah, it's the LOCAL GUY -- which explains that thin reed of a paper this morning.
Oh, and look at the weeklies the divisive, agenda-pushing paper decides to highlight:
.... a Spanish-language paper....
.... New England's largest gay and lesbian publication....
.... a weekly that focuses on Boston's corporate world....
.... a weekly that covers Boston's black community....
--more--"Need I say more? If they had left corporate out of it.....
