We saw the same thing in San Francisco when the Chronicle talked about folding. Of course there's always a few right-wingers who will drink a toast or two to that commie liberal rag biting the dust, and a few who will say if the paper were to "become conservative," it would gain in popularity. Uh, is changing political stances going to change an industry-wide slump in classified and display advertising sales, or cut the cost of newsprint? Don't think so. Being ingelligent people just by being members of this list <g>, we all know this is more than a red-state, blue-state thing.
I'd say it's all about how you use that limited print space. Do you wallow in the fact that you don't have room for state-nation-world, or do you go out and cover the hell out of things in your community beyond the holy trinity of cops, boards and schools? Not to blow the horn of the mighty Hanford Sentinel too much, but for the past few weeks, our Sunday A section is taken up with a "Solutions" series with advice on everything from getting and keeping jobs to alternative, low cost ways to stretch the family budget ... using local sources, not buying some canned package. And from what the circulation folks told us, sales are increasing (although being a true editorial wonk, I felt like sending it back with the spelling and grammar errors corrected ...) Rich --- On Mon, 3/23/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: (3) Some of the comments on this story are so dumb. People are saying the problem is a lack of commitment to investigative reporting. Do they really think television stations are going to do this? They don't understand what's happening here. Like the newspapers *want* to be scaling back to like 12 pages a day. People are so very, very, very stupid. Sorry to be so negative, but... it's one thing if this all goes down because that's just how supply and demand works... it's another thing if people think that journalism is doing this to itself. Newspapers are the past, but journalism ought to be eternal, in any kind of democracy I'd want to live in. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
