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re: Is the Decline of Newspapers Bad for the Country?
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:10 am to anc
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:10 am to anc
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Decline of Newspapers
The decline of true journalism, with actual ethics and a desire to find and report the truth has been very bad for this country...
The decline of newspapers has been more a result of pushing a political agenda and not adapting to the times in an internet dominated field...
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Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:14 am to oogabooga68
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No, it's the decline of honest journalism that is bad for the country.
Seriously, I don't think we have ever had much honest journalism. In our country or in the world. They've been exposed, and now they are paying the price.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:14 am to anc
The internet obviously killed the newspaper industry but they hastened their own demise by taking sides and creating news rather than just reporting it like the greats of the past.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:25 am to NewbombII
quote:You think clickbait news is a better mousetrap?
When the car was invented and refined; wagons makers, buggy makers and saddle makers saw a decline of sales.
A better mousetrap was built....
Very poor analogy.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:30 am to texridder
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clickbait news
Are you saying it did not play a part in the demise of the newspapers? If anything this played a bigger part in the decline of journalism and the newspapers than pretty much anything else...
Being first became more important that being correct... Newspapers could be neither...
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:35 am to anc
Newspapers were and always have been, a medium for distribution of advertising. No great loss, really.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:35 am to anc
We most certainly need to spend more time on local and state politics. That is how Alabamians just got railroaded by the Repubs in this state.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:36 am to anc
I use the Times Picayune’s bi-weekly “free paper” to clean my car windows...
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:41 am to anc
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Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:43 am to Hangover Haven
School paper mache' projects must have taken a hit across the country. OMG! Think of the children!
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:43 am to HubbaBubba
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Newspapers were and always have been, a medium for distribution of advertising.
But magazines are still doing very well with the same reliance on ads.
IE, Golf Mag offers 12 issues for $10 a year. Golfers spend more than that on tees so they buy it. The Mag is 1/2 advertising and 1/2 interesting articles.
They make their money off ads because they can point to the high circulation rate. Newspapers' circulation is in the pits so they can't make money on ads.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 10:47 am to Wtodd
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Or housebreaking a puppy
I use them for getting charcoal going in the starter chimney
Posted on 4/24/19 at 11:22 am to anc
It's entropy. Our country continues to move in a disordered direction. That includes the news print media. And besides the press continues to practice the craft of propaganda increasingly because they see no need for objectivity. Good riddance and be gone!
Posted on 4/24/19 at 11:41 am to anc
quote:It is entirely within the control of the papers themselves.
Is the Decline of Newspapers Bad for the Country?
But no, with the rise of internet sources, decline of instruments of propaganda masquerading as "news" is not bad for the country. E.g., Would loss of the National Enquirer be bad for the country?
Posted on 4/24/19 at 11:54 am to anc
Very bad for the country. We will have a more educated populace on a greatly reduced number of topics. A full newspaper exposed readers to subjects they did not even think about or know about. You are not going to search the Internet for information on a topic that you are not interested in learning about.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 12:12 pm to cahoots
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Formerly, for better or worse, journalists chose which stories were front page news. Now, we do.
More like "we choose what stories affirm our biases."
Posted on 4/24/19 at 12:15 pm to anc
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Is the Decline of Newspapers Bad for the Country?
The decline of journalism is bad for the country. Journalists are supposed to be "the watchdog of Democracy". Sadly, they have become "the watchdog of the DNC and Liberal agenda".
Because of the decline of journalism, newspapers have become mere propaganda pieces. So, "no", the decline of newspapers is NOT BAD for the country... in fact, it is HEALTHY for the country inasmuch as it causes people to find other sources of the truth besides the ubber-biased MSM.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 1:55 pm to The Maj
quote:No. I'm saying the same thing you are.
Are you saying it did not play a part in the demise of the newspapers? If anything this played a bigger part in the decline of journalism and the newspapers than pretty much anything else...
The poster I responded to idiotically suggested that the current state of news was a better mousetrap and made the analogy that cars (a better mousetrap) similarly put horse and buggies out of business.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 2:05 pm to anc
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Many daily newspapers are going to 3x a week publication...1800 newspapers have closed since 2004.
Looks like I picked a shitty time to start using one of these
Posted on 4/24/19 at 2:06 pm to anc
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Is the Decline of Newspapers Bad for the Country?
You can't put boiled crawfish on a computer screen.
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