And I'll tell you this: I've noticed that when I fail to purchase a paper, I not only fail to post as many items, I fail to read as many items and I fail to spend as much time on the Globe's site.
So I'll ride 'em to the end, but all they are doing is cutting off their own noses despite their faces.
Good riddance, agenda-pushing liars!
"A perfect storm for papers; Sinking revenues and the Internet force journalists worldwide to remake their troubled industry" by Lou Ureneck | May 13, 2009
Newspapers are important to society.
And for the controllers that run it.
Hopeful signs are emerging. Clearly, there is a public demand for journalism. Readership, if online readers are counted, is way up. Also, there is a new willingness among news organizations to shift the cost of gathering the news from advertisers to readers. The advertising model may have run its course, and we are moving toward a hybrid that mixes online subscriptions with ad revenues.
If the public's demand is real, the challenge is principally one of packaging and pricing news on the Internet.
Bye, Globe.
The current stream of "free" news is not sustainable. News is expensive to gather and present, and without a willingness by readers to eventually pay for what they enjoy, the stream will go dry.
Readers, does it look like I'm enjoying my morning s*** sheets?
I guess that's what all the profanity and rage are about.
Google and
You aren't just stroking me, are you?
We will probably see a new and vigorous journalism.... And it is likely to be embraced, even at a price, by the people who value it - its readers.
NOT ME!! I'm NOT PAYING TWICE!
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As for that disappearing newspaper.... NOT!
"Online upstarts deliver news without the paper; Super local sites run with tiny staffs, budgets" by Johnny Diaz, Globe Staff | May 14, 2009
The front page of a Chicago daily recently headlined these stories: A charter school facing closure, record turnouts for university elections, a poll showing that Chicagoans crave more openness in their government.
It was a pretty robust report, but it wasn't in the Chicago Tribune or Sun-Times, the major papers in town. In fact, it wasn't on paper at all, but in the Chi-Town Daily News, a small but growing online upstart that is trying to succeed with a relentlessly local focus.
THAT is who is STEPPING INTO the BREECH, Globe!!!!
"We don't cover state politics or national politics," said Geoff Dougherty, a former Tribune reporter who founded Chi-Town in 2005. "We don't have an auto writer or fashion writer. We cover local public affairs."
There are plenty of national and international sources out there for that -- and they are a lot better than the garbage that's presented in my daily newspaper.
With an annual budget of about $500,000, a full-time reporting staff of six, a team of freelancers, and 100 volunteer citizen journalists, the site operates as a nonprofit and draws 65,000 unique visitors a month. In comparison, Tribune's website draws 5.7 million so-called uniques a month, according to Nielsen Online.
Yeah, yeah, poop on the new guy, old crust. Ya bitter you lost?
Small, feisty, hyperlocal, nonprofit - is this a glimpse of the future of city journalism online?
And ALL JOURNALISM!!!! YOU BLEW IT, MSM!
To date, there is nothing in Boston quite like Chi-Town; nothing like an online news site with a reporting staff to compete with - and perhaps dream of supplanting - the major newspaper websites in town, like Boston.com.
Give us time. We've only been around a few years.
Yet a number of nonprofit, low-budget news websites akin to Chi-Town are popping up across the nation. These sites, often run by former newspaper reporters and editors, aim to fill what they see as a void in very local news coverage. Some are trying to position themselves to capitalize should the major paper in town go under, a prospect that every day seems less speculative as some newspapers, including the Globe, find themselves increasingly in dire straits.
Some media observers view these fledgling news sites as promising ventures, even if they don't, and might never, deploy the reporting muscle of a major paper. "Right now, there is no institution, agency, or online service, whatever you want to call it, to replace newspapers," said Lou Ureneck, chairman of Boston University's journalism department.
He obviously isn't reading blogs.
"None of the news-gathering organizations that have news reports online . . . come anywhere close to having the kind of journalistic capacity that you find in your typical metropolitan newspaper."
Nor do we have the capacity to lie and distort like they do.
"If there is an accident on the highway, that will get covered," added Bob Rosenthal, head of Suffolk University's journalism school. "But if there have been a series of accidents, no one will take three weeks or months to do an investigation on that particular roadway. That kind of in-depth examination of government, we'll lose that" without newspapers.
This guy doesn't even know about blogs, does he?
And as for examing the government, when has the MSM done that? If anything, they are a cover-up vehicle and transmission belt for government propaganda!
There are also sites that draw news consumers but don't pretend to originate much content. Adam Gaffin, for example, runs universalhub.com from his Roslindale home. He depends on content from Boston's dailies, weekly newspapers, local blogs, Boston Police Department reports, and Twitter feeds to link to his site. Universal Hub has become his full-time occupation since he was laid off last February from his job as an editor at a trade publication. He has no reporters but he considers what he does a form of journalism....
Yup, the NEWSPAPERS will NEVER RESPECT the bloggers, and I guess I understand why: WE PUT THEM OUT of BUSINESS!!!!!!
Also see: The New Newspaper
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Of course, I've TRIED to HELP THEM (hint, hint, hint):
"The media which has printed these lies and presented the horrors of the day according to the angle desired by those who operate it have become their own worst enemy. They are daily providing the evidence that they lie. Truth tellers on the internet are turning over every rock they tried to bury the truth beneath."
Of course, if they ever told the truth now, the people would not only be appalled at when has been done and the lies that were told doing it; they would understand the MSM's role in FACILITATING ABSOLUTE, AGENDA-PUSHING PROPAGANDA and OUTRIGHT RACIST RUBBISH!!!
No wonder they are on the verge of shutting down.
