Bobby Rifle

CNBC Viewership Down 28%

Explain Maria Bartiromo's shilling for the Republicans then.


On Jul 30 02:02 PM update wrote:

> pinhead.
>
> CNBC is and will forever be the tool of GE and Obama. The staff
> was publically threatened to only say great things about Hussein
> O.
>
> That's not remotely right wing.

The Unraveling of Newspaper Economics

Tim H. makes some great points.

The future is in niche markets. Where newspapers are going wrong is by jettisoning their local content generators (i.e. reporters), but keeping all the national/international... that people can find anywhere else.

Cut the AP wire before you cut your reporting staff. Cover local businesses before bothering with the day's action from Wall Street.

Would Newspaper Readers Pay for Digital Content?

So report it with a conservative bias?

If it's "liberal bias" that's killing newspapers, then explain the massive circulation decline for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Explain why Asian newspapers are having trouble: www.google.com/hostedn...

Oh, OF COURSE it has NOTHING to do with "the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression," nothing to do with the fracturing of all forms of media, nothing to do with rational consumers asking why they should pay for print version when they can the same info for free on the newspaper's website, nothing to do with the mountains of debt newspaper companies took on right before the economy fell off a cliff.

No, it's all about you whining narcissists taking your ball and going home. Of course, you completely refuse to acknowledge how the networks and newspapers (McClatchy's DC bureau mostly excepted) willingly repeated every lie the Bush Administration used to justify Iraq, refuse to acknowledge the fact that the New York Times still can't even bring itself to use the word "torture" to describe what's taken place at Gitmo and Abu Gharib, and refuse to acknowledge how the Washington Post's op-ed pages have become neocon central. Well, at least now I understand why your side actually thinks you're onto a winner with Sarah Palin.

On Jul 02 03:17 AM RE Broker wrote:

> Newspapers might find more customers for both versions willing to
> pay if they stopped their liberal bias and just reported the news.

Why the TV Business Is Not Dying

>First, consumers will find that their a la carte monthly bill for TV viewing quickly rises to $30-50

In my case, that might actually be a price reduction.

Note to Newspapers: Just Monetize Google Visitors and Stop Whining

>Without Google sending millions of daily visitors to newspaper web sites–for FREE–the newspaper industry would have being snuggling up to the Dodo a long time ago.

Mm-hmm. And pray, what is the breakdown between print and online revenues?

I'll think you'll find the increase in online revenue is not covering the decline of print revenue. And even then, it's still roughly an 80-20 split in favor of print.

Fair enough, everybody (and that includes advertisers) is still blindly groping to figure out what the value of online eyeballs is. But to suggest that Google has prevented the death of newspapers from happening already is simply ludicrous.

Where Old Media Will Sink or Swim

I've hammered Jarvis before for his newspaper "prescription" (such as it is), so I've got to credit him with making some very valid points here. The future is an on-demand world (though I still believe you're going to have to charge people something), which you already see in the "there's an app for that" commercials, and before then in Burger King's "have it your way" campaign.

My only quibble is that anyone who looks at newspapers and television and thinks only in terms of how "the Internet" affects them is already in the past.

IMO, as smart phones and other small, mobile devices (like the iPod, but even that will probably be superseded by the iPhone) become more widespread, that's where content is going to eventually be.

Media Manipulation of Sirius News Goes Unchecked

Some real tinfoil-hat stuff here.

Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a technical glitch with the great and all-powerful Google? Sometimes I get old stories showing up when I do Major League Soccer searches on Google News. ZOMG IT MUST BE A CONSPIRACY!!!!!!

Buy the Globe for the Price of a Cup of Coffee

>I repeat: The best thing The Times Company (NYT) could do is push The Globe into bankruptcy, shut down its production and distribution structure, reduce editorial and sales to essential and open-minded employees, go online-only, and come out as a much smaller but profitable company that is no longer a drain on and threat to The New York Times.

How is Seattle P-I doing?

What's the Boston Globe Worth? About a Buck

So explain why the Boston Herald still trails the Globe.

Explain why the San Francisco Chronicle has lost about 20% of its circulation in the past few years.

Explain why the Washington Times still (badly) trails the Post.

Furthermore, explain why conservatives are so narcissistic now that they think it's all about them, and nothing to do with the broader changes of all forms of media splintering into niche markets.

On Jun 15 09:09 AM NP Refugee wrote:

> I continually wonder just how much the liberal bias does, in fact
> hurt the newspaper industry. It has to be taking a toll. Perhaps
> the growth and Fox News and the decline of CNN may be indicative
> of the effects of liberal bias in media. One really must ask just
> stupid an entire industry can be to alienate what is 50% of the populace--a
> percentage of the populace that is more likely to read deeply and
> delve past the headline in Yahoo! or Google news.

Newspapers vs. Bloggers: The New News Process

Wait a sec, I thought the NYT was spreading the homosexual/communist agenda by failing to note the Muslim Obama's commitment to a black-nationalist Christian pastor or his birth certificate?

Oh hang on, that's only on Tuesday-Thursday-Satur... My apologies.


On Jun 08 08:17 AM GeoffreyT wrote:

> The NYT does not even have an Irony-meter - it would have exploded.
>
>
> The Grey Whore should change its self-aggrandising bullshit tagline
> to "All the Propaganda We Get Given By the Government".
>
> Seriously - the paper of Jayson Blair, Judith Miller and, God fuck
> my decaying corpse... Billy Kristol... this worn out rag wants to
> lecture BLOGGERS about STANDARDS?
>
> The only column I ever bother to read in the Grey Whore is Gretchen
> Morgenstern - a fine journalist.
>
> That said, I would NEVER pay to do so: I am glad that the NYT is
> on its way to the scrapheap - the Pentagon is going to have to stovepipe
> its agitprop to Freeptardia once NYT goes the way of GM.
>
> Cheerio
>
>
> GT

Saving Newspapers: Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together

Yeah. And Amazon wants to take 70% of the revenue from newspaper stories on Kindle AND have the right to distribute those stories to any other digital platform. Yep, that's a partnership all right.

As far as AP goes, newspapers pay a shit ton of money to the wire service. So much so that at least a few are balking at the fee and giving their 2-year opt-out notification.

That might not be all bad, because then maybe they'll use the money for local staffing (yeah, right. Not with the managerial beancounters who ran them into the ground by piling up debt for acquisitions while cutting local content). Then they can provide the info that CNN/Reuters/Fox don't provide, which is news about the communities these papers exist in. Go hyperlocal.

Of course, that's a problem for advertisers who don't recognize that all sections of the media are fracturing into niche markets. That's a process that's been going on for 30 years now (see the difference in audience shows for primetime televisions shows between 1980 and now). Advertisers think they can still get a mass media audience, and haven't figured out that you're going to have to go to places where you may only get a thousand pairs of eyes. And that's even before you're challenged by DVRs that allow people to fast-forward through your ads, or ad-blocking software on people's computers.


On Jun 04 07:35 PM FullMetalPhotographer wrote:

> What's true for the group is also true for the individual. It's simple:
> overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death.
> -(Major Motoko Kusanagi) Ghost In The Shell
>
> Humpty Dumpty not only fell down but was turned into an omelet and
> was served up.
> Newspapers have been living in fantasy since the 90's. Numbers were
> declining before then. By 2001 Newspaper invested heavily in the
> internet or I should say the bubble. As far as Google goes the Genie
> has left the bottle. To be blunt Google and Yahoo are not the issue
> here. Newspapers retro economic model and news distribution model
> is the problem. I hate to say it but a pay per story model will not
> work because there are so many other sources. Even if you put a gag
> on AP. You still have Reuters, CNN, FOX and many more willing to
> fill those shoes.
> Newspapers need to think differently. They need to realize they are
> not in the printing business but in the information business. Gather
> and delivering information. They need to lose the the Deadline mentality
> and think of a constant flow of information. They need to look at
> partnerships such as Amazon and Apple for news distribution. If they
> do not adapt then they will join the dinosaur as a marker in history.

Newspaper Ad Sales Go from Terrible to Terrifying

PastTense hit it dead on.

There is secular change going on, yes, but the bulk of newspaper troubles now are due to borrowing a ton of money right before the economy fell off a cliff.

Take a look at Gatehouse Media for example: www.boston.com/busines.../

Can Traditional Print Newspapers Survive Creative Destruction?

Except studies (which to be fair have a small sample size because so few have done it) are showing that newspapers that discontinue their print editions to go digital-only actually see a *decrease* in their online readership. For better or worse, the print edition is acting like a billboard for the digital product.

If I had to guess, I think that at least for a generation you're going to have print and digital sitting uneasily with each other. You may have a print edition for the longer-form articles as suggested in the OP, breaking news posted to the Web, alerts sent to cell phones, etc.


On May 28 09:24 AM PeakOiler wrote:

> I don't know how anyone can justify the selfishness of cutting down
> trees, expending vast amounts of fossil fuels in the process of cutting,
> pulping, paper rolling, and delivery of an individual newspaper.
> Clearly these processes have no future in the delivery of digital
> information.

The Journalism Bubble

Waterboarding is a minor issue?

We prosecuted Japanese officers after WW2 on the grounds that it was a war crime. Even executed some.


On May 22 11:59 PM Missing_Link wrote:

> "People — particularly if they’re under 40 — have news priorities
> other than those of the editors of The New York Times or producers
> of the 'NBC Nightly News.' "
>
>
> Well put. I find it unfathomable that the media seems to be hyperfocused
> on minor issues like waterboarding while the biggest economic crisis
> in 75 years is causing massive loss of jobs, homes, and savings across
> the country.

The Journalism Bubble

> Wrong. I ended up being very well-paid because I worked in news

You must be the only one.