tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post3211276539434038277..comments2023-10-27T03:41:13.171-07:00Comments on Warning Signs: Journalism isn't Dead, but Newspapers areAlan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-10505161607026005132009-12-15T11:30:39.471-08:002009-12-15T11:30:39.471-08:00@McLovin
You are a typical sheep looking for a pop...@McLovin<br />You are a typical sheep looking for a popularity contest.<br />Your comprehension skills are about that level.<br />You have no independent mind or critical thinking, you suggest your limits are dictated by a nielsen ratings or some other false measure of knowledge and fact. <br />You are a perfect candidate for mob rule.<br />You are one of the many dumbed down who think America is a democracy.<br />We are a republic, we grew and thrived on the right to speak truth even if it manifested in minority view.<br />Through out history the preservation of a counterview has progressed mankind out of the darkness of programmed consensus. <br />It is being played right before your eyes as the world is being manipulated back to the stone age with the global warming hoax. <br />But lets get our terminology correct,<br />Truth as a popularity contest or consensus of group think is manipulated brainwashing. <br />It can only thrive with out the competition of a independent counterview.<br />One day as you present your wrist to be scanned, watching a TV monitor with only one channel, one voice,one view point, one truth.<br />You may have a moment of clarity to ponder how things "progressed" to that point.<br />Then maybe your mind will bring back a blog entry you read from<br />Friday, December 11, 2009 entitled:<br />"Journalism isn't Dead, but Newspapers are" By Alan Caruba.Northpalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03444659659570553524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-27743115081725286192009-12-15T02:50:34.779-08:002009-12-15T02:50:34.779-08:00Here is the crux of the matter; the local scene wi...Here is the crux of the matter; the local scene will be covered by local weekly or monthly tabloids. How good a job they do is a separate issue! But if the major papers go out of business they will get better and make more money. Just think of the long term potential. Local tabloids popping up all over the country to take the place of large rags that print claptrap! True democracy in practice! <br /><br />The major’s are dying because of a lack of advertising, not just because people aren’t really reading them. People bought these papers because that is all there was. Once there were other outlets they stopped buying papers because they didn’t agree with what they were saying and didn’t need them. Advertisers found better and cheaper ways to advertising their products and services. <br /><br />The major’s who are left will charge large amounts for their papers, as the Wall Street Journal does, and will print the full story or they will go out of business also. However, if advertising dollars were still available, or replaced by some government program, as in the past they would still print claptrap whether anyone bought their papers of not. After all, those advertising dollars are drying up rapidly and they still print claptrap.Rich Kozlovichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-18537618291598213232009-12-14T08:53:49.915-08:002009-12-14T08:53:49.915-08:00Alan, you are so right about the demise of print j...Alan, you are so right about the demise of print journalism. I remember canceling my subscription to the SF Chronicle in 1995. They actually called me for my reason. What I said was, that my parakeet had died. The real reason was the blatant bias, not just of the stories, but of how they were framed in the summary of headlines at the top of page one. Very often the headline was skewed, so that someone with little time or interest to read the article would come away with a nonsensical slant on the news. Thousands were duped in this way.Travis sezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401004311240478669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-19160665890946287992009-12-13T15:52:25.239-08:002009-12-13T15:52:25.239-08:00McLovin:
You are a MORON.
For your information, m...McLovin:<br />You are a MORON.<br /><br />For your information, my daily blog posts also appear on CanadaFreePress.com and are picked up by some 40 or so other news and opinion websites and blogs.<br /><br />How many people read my commentaries? I have no idea, but if the email from places like Australia, Great Britain and the Philippines are any measure, the numbers of considerable.<br /><br />To spare you making a greater fool of yourself, any more of your comments will be blocked.Alan Carubahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-71166971858157782582009-12-13T15:43:49.545-08:002009-12-13T15:43:49.545-08:00LOL, this is hilarious. This guy fantasizes that h...LOL, this is hilarious. This guy fantasizes that his views are still important, and meaningful...when in reality his journalism career is OVER. And probably for good reason: NO ONE CARES what he thinks. Seems you're a legend in YOUR OWN MIND,and ONLY there, eh, Alan? <br /><br />Let's see...you have a total of 9 comments on this article (and 4 of those comments are from the blog owner himself)...and there are currently roughly 308 MILLION people in U.S. Further, since the internet is essentially GLOBAL in its reach, I might also point out that the current World population is 6.8 BILLION. And here you have- apparently - a total of FIVE readers of your blog. Do you realize what that suggests? It suggests that there is darn near close to ZERO INTEREST in your viewpoint. <br /><br />So I have to ask you: Why bother? I mean, seriously...don't you have anything more useful to do with your time? It seems quite futile, don't you think?<br /><br />I dunno, maybe it makes you feel important to write down your thoughts? Do you pretend that you're having a conversation with someone while you're "blogging"? I hope not...because if you do, then you're seriously delusional. NO ONE IS PAYING ATTENTION. Get it? Your few devoted "followers" appear to be as clueless as you are. Ignorance loves company, I guess.<br /><br />Maybe if you had a little better grasp of reality, more people would read your opinions (then again, if that were the case, you might actually still employed as a journalist) <br /><br />Alas, you're probably no longer employable as anything, at this point...just a useless, fading anachronism from a bygone time. Must be tough....like "watching the dinosaurs die off." LOL.<br /><br />Pathetic, really.McLovinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00171139290431646310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-85137019543765488022009-12-12T11:05:29.158-08:002009-12-12T11:05:29.158-08:00Texas Fred,OI James and JD Longstreet nice blogs ...Texas Fred,OI James and JD Longstreet nice blogs and pages you have.And you of course Alan. I have visited all of them in the last few moments and will add them to bookmarks as soon as I make another folder.<br />One thing though we have been at war a lot longer than that 3000 plus days.I'd say at least back to 79 but actually long before that.We always will be because there is always some entity or another that NEEDS an attitude adjustment of some sort.And we are the only people that can do that.Necromancerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16596027359880539976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-35047472712034450812009-12-12T10:46:57.152-08:002009-12-12T10:46:57.152-08:00Thanks, Rob. And glad to have my view confirmed by...Thanks, Rob. And glad to have my view confirmed by someone in the business of newspapers.Alan Carubahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-14349536146552324492009-12-12T09:55:33.170-08:002009-12-12T09:55:33.170-08:00As a newspaper owner, I'd like to agree with y...As a newspaper owner, I'd like to agree with you.<br />It shocks me to see what is happening in the world of newspapers.<br /><br />My weekly/hometown/local paper is at an all-time high for subscriptions. <br /><br />I concentrate on ignoring the world outside my area unless there is a direct tie to my people.<br /><br />Folks can find out regional/state/national/world news on the internet. <br /><br />They can not find news about our town there.<br /><br />And this would be correct in all but the largest towns in the nation... meaning a local newspaper could thrive in a big city if they would invest the time and reporters in finding out local news for their readers.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039695534858831182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-50180035600824191482009-12-11T18:06:59.254-08:002009-12-11T18:06:59.254-08:00Thank you, J.D.
I miss a newspaper in the mornin...Thank you, J.D. <br /><br />I miss a newspaper in the morning, too.<br /><br />When I stopped my subscription, I knew an era was over.Alan Carubahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-12080902193262414692009-12-11T17:34:06.990-08:002009-12-11T17:34:06.990-08:00You all have just about covered it! Great piece, ...You all have just about covered it! Great piece, Alan!<br /><br />I am a fan of newspapers. At least, I WAS. I still don't feel my day has begun correctly without a newspaper to read over breakfast. <br /><br />I have two regionals that reach into my small SENC town. One is owned by the NYT and the other is an independent published near Ft. Bragg. Both are in trouble. The NYT paper is in SERIOUS trouble because it is so far left -- here in CONSERVATIVE NC -- that it is a laughing stock! Both have reduced their physical size, changed the type, dropped a number of features, and, in the case of the NYT paper, stopped home delivery in my town. They still deliver to racks, but that is it. <br /><br />The independent has done all of the things the NYT paper has done - except stop home delivery. <br /><br />But delivery is erratic. I might get my paper at 5:20 AM, when I want it, or I might receive it at 8:30 or 9:00 AM. Of course, as one who rises at 2 to 3 AM, every single day (A legacy of 30 years in the broadcast business!), ofttimes, by the time I DO receive my paper, I no longer need it. I have already, long since read the news I am interested in online! <br /><br />It would seem the newspapers are STILL attempting to IGNORE the INTERNET. However, both the papers I mentioned above have E-editions.<br /><br />It doesn't make sense. Smart businesses, it seems to me, would have, long ago, figured out how to use the Internet to produce a better product. They didn't -- and it shows -- and it is hurting them, big time!<br /><br />The wire services are pathetic! AP and Reuters are, in my estimation, tied for the worst of the lot. Both are so damned biased it is sickening. I have become quite adept at guessing which wire service produced a piece, I happen to be reading, by their tendency to use certain phrases and words in describing the US and Americans, in general, and some in particular.<br /><br />(By the way, am I dating myself by using the term "Wire Services?" I guess so. I come from the time of teletype machines with that box of cheap yellow paper sitting beneath them and a perpetual coil of the stuff continuously creeping out from behind as the machine clattered endlessly, 24 hours a day. I sometimes think I still have some of the ink under my nails from changing ribbons in the things! As an old news hound, I suspect you know exactly what I mean!)<br /><br />I really DO hate to see newspapers go. My local paper is in the next block and , of course, I know practically everyone on staff. I even exchange photos of grandchildren with the editor. But -- they won't print my "stuff." The paper is a Pulitzer prize winner, and it is dedicated to local news and is published twice a week. It is LIBERAL. It is locally owned, but the owner, publisher, and editor are graduates of the VERY liberal journalism school at UNC! <br /><br />They won't print my commentaries, but they WILL not hesitate to ask me to write a news report of a local event for publication in their paper. And, of course, I AM such a push-over, that occasionally, I do write a report for them.<br /><br />Our newspapers will get even worse if the government does "bailout" those major publications now bleeding cash. Those news organizations receiving government money will simply become "house organs" for the socialist/progressive/communist/democrats<br />currently in charge of what we laughingly refer to as our government. (Many of those papers are already carrying the water for the White House and the Democratic Congress even now.)<br /><br />Again, it is a great piece, Alan. And, as usual, it was "spot on." <br /><br />Keep up the good work, my friend!<br /><br />J.D. LongstreetLongstreethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-74381339728913736582009-12-11T11:15:59.682-08:002009-12-11T11:15:59.682-08:00James, it would appear that we are in AGREEMENT! :...James, it would appear that we are in AGREEMENT! :-)<br /><br />This is like watching the dinosaurs die off.Alan Carubahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-39891666435331991482009-12-11T11:13:36.067-08:002009-12-11T11:13:36.067-08:00Amen, Fred, and Amen!Amen, Fred, and Amen!Alan Carubahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-21632021863286016992009-12-11T10:56:02.331-08:002009-12-11T10:56:02.331-08:00AMEN, Mr. Alan, AMEN!!! My niece works for a local...AMEN, Mr. Alan, AMEN!!! My niece works for a local paper as some kind of assistant editor. It's owned by The Times. I told her when she went to work there in '04 or'05, they would tell her what to print, talk, eat and vote. Yep she voted- "O", (he whose name shall not be mentioned).<br /> The paper,(Gadsden Times), has maybe a couple of pages that cover the news locally, regionally and statewide. the rest...well crap, scrap dribble and trash. They shut down their presses and moved them to Rome, GA.<br />I have noticed there are a number of independent publications appearing in local businesses. My favorite's come from the State COOP and the State AG Commissioner. Ya never know when you might need a goat or tractor..Ol Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08104714377087960892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-45343161665479077262009-12-11T10:55:35.732-08:002009-12-11T10:55:35.732-08:00It is their arrogance?
It is their capitulation t...It is their arrogance?<br /><br />It is their capitulation to leftist political ideology?<br /><br />It is their abandonment of accuracy and balance?<br /><br />In my mind it's a compilation of ALL of the above... <br /><br />Journalistic integrity has gone by the wayside. Bloggers get more truth out there than the MSM can even dream of.<br /><br />Folks like you, me, Longstreet and many others, we lay it on the line and we avoid the curse of political correctness. In other words, we tell it like it is!<br /><br />Of course, Conservative blogs have a definite right hand tilt, and there is nothing wrong with that, the message of the libbers has to be counteracted somewhere, it might as well start with folks like us, Conservative Patriots that tell the truth and offer SANE opinions, no matter the consequences.TexasFredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06412925337032937983noreply@blogger.com