Not Waiting For The Asteroid

15 Replies to “Not Waiting For The Asteroid”

1. I guess it’s understandable hubris that the newspaper and news magazine groups thought they have been around forever and thus should continue on – that this is the righteous path. But really they have only existed for about a hundred years give or take and that is just a flyspeck of time as they soon will be in the timeline of human history.

2. The Toronto Humane Society could mummify them, if that is so desired.

3. Now that’s good news that’s fit to print. Er, e-print.

4. Excellent.
   Victims of their own success.

5. Weird. They were a business? I’d always assumed, based on their content, that they were a George Soros-funded wing of the Democratic Party.

6. Not surprising. The die was cast when the industry threw Fact Checker and Proofreader Magazine under the bus with the advent of computerized typesetting.

7. When the Industry does not read their own Industry rag why would they then lament us not reading theirs…
   Maybe they have not read that they are in trouble yet?

8. The MSM has no interest in the MSM…odd that….on second thought maybe not.
   Syncro

9. The market audience for Editor and Publisher will not put up with biased reporting and the selection of stories deemed important! CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION!!!!!!

10. touche

11. 108 years ago?
    Hmm…isn’t that when one of those warming trends ends that Monckton used in his slides?
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

12. I didn’t know editor & publisher existed until I got my first newsroom job – the one I got laid off from after 7 1/2 years last February. The paper’s first editor used to leave it in the lunchroom for us to read after he was done with it. It never really printed anything that wasn’t a)blatantly obvious or b) hopelessly highminded in an age when declining readership/revenues were more of a priority. Oh, and there was the liberal bias – almost forgot about that.
    It wasn’t the sort of thing that anyone outside the industry would give a damn about, and it probably give some idea of how basically clueless its management was that they didn’t see their own death warrant spelled out in the declining numbers of the captive readership they relied upon. As far as I could tell, they even did a poor job of chronicling the death of their own industry, which tips its demise firmly into the realm of the pathetic.
    A while back, I asked a friend who teaches journalism here in Toronto if he was doing anything to prepare his students for the hellstorm nightmare they were facing upon graduation. He said he didn’t think that was his job; that good journalists would always find a place to work.
    Driving straight into the abyss, blindfolded, with a brick on the accelerator, the stereo blasting public radio.
    Why didn’t I learn a trade?

13. horror of horrors. Billboard rag going under the hammer?
    how will the music moguls know who to direct their payola at?
    I’m gonna call up some schools of journalism just as a joke and see what they think of this trend.

14. Yes, we need to stop global warming so athletes can have fun jobs. It’s not like Canada wouldn’t be better off with less snow and ice.
    Maybe they can learn a new sport, like swimming. Or maybe they can get real jobs and work for a living.
    I agree – ban the Olympics. Think how much CO2 they generate.
    Did they ever consider that in a warmer world we’d spent less energy and CO2, you know, trying to stay warm in the Winter?

15. The story says that thery’re also folding Kirkus Reviews. Excellent news.If you look up a book on Amazon they often quote Kirkus Reviews in the “Editorial Reviews” section. If the book has any political aspect at all then the Kirkus Reviews take is invariably left-wing. Good riddance.