Not Waiting For The Asteroid

16 Replies to “Not Waiting For The Asteroid”

1. Two things that will be required to make newspapers viable again are.
   Papers need to start reporting truthful news with no spin.
   Educational system must revert back to teaching children to read and stop teaching them what to think.
   What are the odds?

2. John V: Well said. Amen.
   I used to live in a suburb of Newark and, only at my wife’s request, subscribed to the Star Ledger. Ideologically, it resembles the New York Times, with “Doonesbury” appearing regularly opposite its editorial page. I welcome any hint that it might be in financial trouble.
   I love the comment in the article on the NY Times: “Yes, the newspaper is better than ever.” These people have absolutely no clue. None.

3. Faster, please.

4. Ditto to RSP’s comment. They have a perfect understanding of the general economic position, and yet constantly repeat that the newspaper is “better”. If a company keeps eliminating positions, there is bound to be a negative effect on productivity and quality.
   It’s a shame that journalists are not required to take economics courses. 4th estate does not equal “immune to market forces”.

5. Last week there was a report on Torstar “Profits” being up….
   
   Seems they think that selling off Real estate assets … is the same thing as Earning a Profit.
   You may also note that their main source of revenue is NOT the print news …..

6. Well, the Lying Jackal is studiously ignoring the pain of various liberal newspapers, and is sticking the knife in hard to the National Post. Couldn’t be anything personal there, huh?
   One hopes he is just joking about buying the thing, but you never know. I would think that he’d be the first person “flushed” for, as he puts it, mocking women’s rights: http://news.therecord.com/News/CanadaWorld/article/218092

7. >> “Is the New York Times for sale?”
   Who knows? But the conservative National Post may be.

8. Judging from the diminishing size of the roll of newspaper delivered to my house daily, I’d have to say even “conservative” papers are having problems, if you can call the National Post conservative. Somehow,I think the problem goes deeper than biased reporting and acting as commie shills.
   Even the National Post bends over backwards with political correctness. They publish too much of the “fair & balanced” crap in the hope they appear to be objective. Nobody else does.
   Just give me the news – all of it. I’m an adult and can handle it.
   Now, it may well be that all the news cannot be reported because most of the news gatherers are all libs and they only report commie stuff. Since there are very few truly objective reporters, only a small trickle of real news gets through.

9. You mean the not entirely, not completely, not 100% All-Liberal-All-The-Time but still kinda MSM socialist National Post?
   WTF?

10. re: potential sale of the new York times
    If in fact it is, look for mort zuckerman or rupert Murdoch to take a run at it.
    And then the grey lady may be returned to something resembling its former glory and reputation for objectivity.

11. One journalist was singularly successful in revitalizing the Daily Telegraph in London, making the weekly Spectator (UK) profitable as well as compelling reading, getting the National Post off the ground and offering some competition in the national newspaper market, and improving scores of other papers by an emphasis on good reporting, diversity of opinion, and, above all, good writing. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he seldom if ever intervened to spike a story or discipline a columnist; if one of his employees wrote something he didn’t like, he made use of the letters column to express his dissent.
    Of course, he’s in prison right now.
    I can’t comment on Lord Black’s integrity as a businessman, but as a journalist and newspaper owner, he was a model that has, sadly, gone uncopied.

12. Deja Vu
    This is exactly the same topic WRT Oprah. “And these ratings have some of us wondering if (newspapers) are working for (their) audience anymore.”
    Gotta love free enterprise!

13. I use a serial cut rate subscription to the local lefty rag as an early warning system. If the papers start piling up the neighbours will know I’m dead and call somebody.
    Plus the rag loses money on my custom.

14. They have to adjust to the realities of the day. No one is conned anymore by spin except liberals. We have the Internet to check you out. I love a good editorial when factual & well done. Most things that pass for news these days is just dreck if your lucky, with out right lies becoming the norm.
    Its become celebrity driven, by supposed expert pundits who are inevitably wrong.
    Time to go back to old fashioned real reporting on both print & TV. Than maybe the public will slowly trust them again. They have not served us well yet again during this crisis of free speech. The quiet is disturbing except for a few brave souls. As for the treatment of Islamists, it can only be called craven cowardice bowing before there every lie like supplicants to a feast. Yet against others, these same hypocrites talk brave. We the people have seen it to much, they have lost our trust by there adultery with the governments of the time. With the Monsters they have shielded as well as crooks. They have watched the desecration of this Country & our legal rights while squeezing the last drops of life blood from us for a Senate cinctures by being whores to the big names of the time. All the while besides the honorable few they watched this Nation wither while saying nothing. It took an American blogger to bring down the Liberal crime machine.
    In America there doing it as well. Now the reckoning comes.

15. The Sulzberger family controls the NY Times and no-one can force them to give up enough control to improve it…unless they follow the Hollinger model.

16. Pete, by their past history and current lack of substantive change, the Sulzberger family appear to insist on rearranging the Titanic’s deck chairs until it slips below the waves.
    As far as I’m concerned, they’ll be unlamented when the inevitable bankruptcy and/or forced fire sale happens. And think of all those “progressive” “journalists”, i.e. Maureen Dowd, who’ll then have to go out and work for a living! And all those New Yorkers who’ll have to go through cold-turkey withdrawal from their daily mega-dose of “progressive” disinformation!