21 Replies to “Deep Impact”

  1. Take the 5 year stock price for Netflix, invert it, and you have the 5 year chart for newspaper subscriptions.

  3. ?
    Im confoosed. we’re supposed to conserve the forests (recycled toilet paper anyone?).
    well, whut better way to keep the tall trees standing than another pc of propaganda go under?
    really; it’s ALL about ‘self sacrifice for Gaia’, right?
    oopsie!! self sacrifice *for everyone ELSE*. ok. now Im not confoosed.

    in a related issue, I had THREE major career changes in my life and a bunch of little ones.
    *it’s part of modern living that the exalted and irreplacable tekNOlogy will CLOBBER various occupations*.
    I saw this when I left my 1st career as a mainframe senior computer operator, 1985.
    didja get that? I LEFT that line of work, finished my degree and jumped on the desktop bandwagon for about another 10-15 years. *I saw it coming and acted before the zhobs were all taken up*.
    my own little bit of free enterprise see-an-opportunity-and-grab-a-piece-of-it.

    conclusion: journalists are socialists at heart, expecting the world to accommodate them.
    discuss. lol !!!

  4. I just think of all the conservative (or at least honest) journalists and support staff who lost their jobs to make room for this wave of B.S. artists. Unlike the current crop, those people probably had the common sense required to land on their own two feet. This group is more than likely pre-filed for unemployment and other subsidies.

  5. I like reading a news paper, i just don’t like the content of today’s news paper.

      1. Even the Francophones read the Montreal Gazette. It preceded the la Presse by 100 years or so. Imagine the Demarais family who own Power Corp and have 1.5 trillion in assets having to end the printed version of the paper. They get a Fed Gov grant to keep the lights on to keep their digital version going. I disagree with wealthy conglomerates getting grants just to keep the ‘ Two Solitudes’ separate. We all know that English is the language of business universally. Yes, I still like a paper too, occasionally, for better or worse!

    2. So do I and I agree about the content. We dropped two newspapers subscriptions years ago when the content went decidedly to the left. If Saskatchewan could get the National Post or a local equivalent of the Toronto or Calgary Suns as hard copy I would subscribe, but since these are not available I subscribe online to NP and Calgary Sun.

    3. The ONE trick that I taught my Bernese Mtn. Dog (Josie) … believe it or not … was to retrieve my morning paper from the end of the driveway … and literally SPRINT back into the house and deposit it by my reading chair. Who woulda thought? A Bernese retriever! But she ALWAYS fetched my paper. Never balked, and even when the paper was delivered into the shrubbery … Jozie would diligently search, track it down, and bring it in. Why did Jozie do it? Treats. That’s all … just a guaranteed treat for every delivery. It’s in all creatures DNA to respond positively to positive reinforcement.

      I miss Jozie … but I don’t miss my local paper that was bought by The Mercury News … and transformed from a conservative, local family newspaper … into a leftist rag that took particular delight in plastering Gay lifestyle stories on the Sunday Religious page. Sick. These propagandists are sick puppies. Sick puppies that fetch every vile story by their deviant masters

  6. Any journalist who didn’t see the demise of print media in general and their own story specifically can probably blame their ego. As for the behind-the-scenes people some might have hoped they could retire before the end and others might have been listening to the head-in-ass journalists who were telling them, “Us? No, we’ll be fine. I am here and I’m – I mean we’re – an integral cog. Democracy, freedom and liberty need us.”

  7. Why pay for paper fake news when you can have fake news for free on the internet ?

    2. Huh? It appears that their Twitter feed is up to date.

  9. About 575 years ago, Gutenburg invented the printing press and the world changed dramatically! It’s been a good run. Now, not only newspapers but printed magazines and books are going away. Just as the newspaper deliver boy and the delivery drivers who delivered bundles of paper to them are gone so too will be libraries and librarians, book printers and book stores. Just as Montgomery Ward disappeared so too will Sears (Roebuck& Co.) and JC Penny, et al, with the rise of Amazon and E-bay.
    The world is changing in many, many ways, at least in so called 1st world countries. I can’t help wondering how people will earn a living as more and more jobs are displaced through automation and electronic innovation. However, I make no predictions, especially about the future. (thanks Yogi).
    As to journalists, well there is always Blogs, Twitter, Yahoo, Huff Post, etc. They’re mostly opinion writers anyway.

    1. The printing press was the # 1 best invention over the last 1000 years, according to an A&E documentary show I saw a few years back.

    2. heh-heh. I read Yogi Berra’s autobiography.
      what a hoot. it’s a wonder the Yanks could play any ball with his constant quips and observations.
      what time is it Yogi? ya mean now?

      1. Hey historybuff,
        ” It ain’t over till it’s over”!

        This is one of my favourites, though there are many funny ones.
        How true about the most perfect game ever, on the planet!

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