Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Is Seattle on the verge of becoming a zero-newspaper town?

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will shut down if a buyer isn't found within weeks, and the Seattle Times is said to be in big trouble. Chuck Taylor is predicting Seattle will have zero newspapers before long. Click here for the story.
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16 comments:

Anonymous said...

But, I thought libs know best? Ask Krugman? Next step?

Blood coughing death throws

Anonymous said...

Can you hear me know..San Francisco

Anonymous said...

Believe me, the only news that would rattle Seattle is that Starbuck may close their favorite slosh house.

Anonymous said...

This is real canary in the coal mine stuff. If a liberal paper with a monopoly in liberal Seattle can't make it, there is little hope for the contemporary newspaper business model elsewhere.

Anonymous said...

Seattle liberals need a light bulb moment. Kool-aid drinkers don’t need, nor want outside information. Life in the same echo chamber, doesn’t require reporting on life in the same echo chamber.

Anonymous said...

Peeps in the Seattle coffee houses have open laptops. Forget the broadsheets,except for oldies.

Anonymous said...

Here is the truth I see at coffee houses, a pinhead buys the cheapest coffee, grabs any free paper with a crossword puzzle, and sits for the next hour taking up precious space. That is a liberal’s idea of supporting a business.

Anonymous said...

Here is a real life secondhand story. A college professor opened a small coffee and tearoom near his college. He wanted a place for like-minded folks to mingle undisturbed by the common rabble. The shop closed in a few short months. His business plan didn’t make allowances for the un-rabbled ones, that sat sipping the same cup of tea for endless hours. What a Marxist, pompous ass he was.

Anonymous said...

Anon 10:53 SPOT ON!

That's why MNI stock trades at 50% premium to Borders, which trades at .50cents.

That Marxist, $1 coffee then pillage the wares don't pay off too well, huh?

Anonymous said...

Read a headline the other day stating that Seattle is the most wired city in the US. Stands to reason that seattle is getting hit hard on printed circulation.

The problem is not that the paper is to liberal, its that nobody understands how to move foward in a profitable way. Way to much backward thinking in regards to the operations of the papers as well the content.

Do you really think if seattle papers were more conservative that the circulation would all of a sudden go up? you folks need to get out of that box your in.

Anonymous said...

Anon writes:
“Do you really think if seattle papers were more conservative that the circulation would all of a sudden go up? you folks need to get out of that box your in.”
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You are so far back, no one can help you. Newspapers are DOA. It is a new technology thing. It wouldn’t matter who owned them, but that they were liberal bastions for liars, and are failing miserably, is delicious ‘Just Desserts.’ The liberal media gloated that they ‘selected’ and ‘elected’ obama. Newspaper sales and ads are down. Why is that? A poor economy? This has been a trend for years. Where have you been?

Anonymous said...

Seattle has become a sick city. Only San Fran is worse.

Anonymous said...

Big news in Seattle, Another coffee house closes. This is news placed way above the grunge line.

Anonymous said...

Starbucks closed near me. McDonald's now offers upscale coffee for a fraction of the price. You have to wait in line for their special coffee, but who thought it would become so ‘uptown’ already? Oh, and I did see free news rags littering the place.

Anonymous said...

12:26

No matter what direction the paper is leaning, i garrantee it will be a "bastions for liars".

Do you even work for a paper? Newsroom?

I say newsroom becasue only an employee from that department would take a quote out of context as you did.

I was stating the same thing you were.... technology has a big role in the reduction of printed circulation. I only did it without my anti lib views.

If you do not like liberals, or seattle for being liberal just state it. Trying to link seattle's liberal leaning ways to the papers downfall is ignorance at its finest.

Anonymous said...

Seattle has become Frisco-North
Going, going, gone