Monday, December 8, 2008
News Paper Fortunes
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:58 AM
The Miami Herald is for sale, the Chicago Tribune is going bankrupt, the New York Times has mortgaged and may have to sell its new building, the Rocky Mountain News will close if it can't find a buyer, the PI down to three sections, the Seattle Times cutting sections, dropping features and putting up real estate holdings in South Lake Union to service $91 million debt.
Share via
3
The media went bankrupt during the lead up to the invasion of Iraq when they simply parroted the Bush administration's PR.
4
@2: Be realistic. How can a paper that only publishes once a week, is 1/2 to 3/4 full of adult ads, and pays its staffers in dime bags go bankrupt? The largest expense is Savage's in-flight bar bill, and I bet Mahr picks that up.
/Kidding; love you all.
/Kidding; love you all.
6
I want to say that I can't wait till Drudge has nothing left to post links to and no scoops to exploit because there will be no journalists left besides the ones who know how to do internet searches and control-c + control-v.....but I don't because that is doomsday.
Blogging seems like this really wonderful savior to Democracy but it really needs informed and bankrolled institutions for it to leech off of in order to get hard information.
Blogging seems like this really wonderful savior to Democracy but it really needs informed and bankrolled institutions for it to leech off of in order to get hard information.
8
@6. I've wondered that too. What will the bloggers do when the actual journalists are gone? And I don't mean Slog. I mean people who make their livings blogging (i.e., John Aravosis, et al.).
9
Ugh. This makes me depressed.
All right, everyone, let's watch this in unison, unless you're at work, this is NSFW:
http://www.dancefloordale.com/
All right, everyone, let's watch this in unison, unless you're at work, this is NSFW:
http://www.dancefloordale.com/
10
But where will all the dept store ads go if there's no Sunday/Thanksgiving newspapers to put them in???
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...........
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...........
11
No sympathy in the slightest. It's a pity that it's down to gross financial incompetence rather than, say, having Judith Miller and the entire circa-2002 editorial staff shot for treason, but schadenfreude is not an exact science and I'll take what I can get. Good bye and good riddance to the "liberal" (dry laughter) New York Times: hope you enjoy being owned by Rupert Murdoch, you murdering douchebags.
12
Maybe if they changed their names to Not Seattle Times, since they cater to a non-Seattle audience, they might not be as irrelevant.
But I doubt it.
No sympathy for the Devil, or the Blethens.
But I doubt it.
No sympathy for the Devil, or the Blethens.
14
Fewer left wing news outlets to spread Marxist propaganda?
I'm so sad!
Seriously, the rapid death of newspapers is testament to the power of talk radio. That's where right thinking people get their news!
I'm so sad!
Seriously, the rapid death of newspapers is testament to the power of talk radio. That's where right thinking people get their news!
15
Oh noes! Now where will we our daily dose of right-wing lies and pro-government propaganda?
Here's a hint for the NYT and Seattle Times: The tongue-flapping, bug-eyed, far-right psychos they've been desperately trying to lure in read the Bible not the news.
Antagonizing the people who actually want to read their papers might not be such a hawt idea. Duh.
Please tell me The Washington Post is next.
Here's a hint for the NYT and Seattle Times: The tongue-flapping, bug-eyed, far-right psychos they've been desperately trying to lure in read the Bible not the news.
Antagonizing the people who actually want to read their papers might not be such a hawt idea. Duh.
Please tell me The Washington Post is next.
16
Lord Basil @ 14,
If you're referring to the brainless, hot-air sucking fucktards who worship drug-addled, asshole liars like Rush Limbaugh--who hasn't seen his own dick in at least thirty years--then you're right.
If you're referring to the brainless, hot-air sucking fucktards who worship drug-addled, asshole liars like Rush Limbaugh--who hasn't seen his own dick in at least thirty years--then you're right.
17
Could you see the news papers going to congress to ask for a bailout the way the car companies did? "We should demand they be nice to people and only report happy news as a condition of any bailout"!
19
The Seattle Times is getting rid of the NY Times crossword puzzle. Now I have 0 reasons to buy the paper since I read most of it online (I rather do the crossword puzzle with a pencil than a keyboard).
Most Commented on Slog
-
Life and Death in a Recliner in South Carolina by Dan Savage
-
Pit Bulls! by Dan Savage
-
Becoming a Man by Dan Savage
-
SL Letter of the Day: Hot & Drunk by Dan Savage
-
$2,600,000,000 by Dan Savage
-
All The Best Men Are Taken by Dan Savage
-
I Hate You, Garrison Keillor by Jen Graves
-
Unreal Americans by Dan Savage
-
Precious: Brutal New Classic or African-American Bruno? by David Schmader
-
Meanwhile in Vancouver by Dan Savage
RSS
Facebook
Twitter
Comments (19) RSS