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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Interesting stat of the day
This caught me by surprize: the Wall Street Journal is now twice the size of the New York Times.
Not a surprise to me. Business people depend on accuracy and real information. Creative writing disguised as news is now reaping it's rewards.
With the revelation that 50% of USA Today's circulation was in free editions to hotels the only real surprise left in print media will be when W. P. Carey changes the name of their new building from The NY Times Building to the W.P. Carey building since they own it now.
It surprises me that it happened this soon, but I think everyone should have seen it coming.
When every major newspaper decided to become national newspapers first and local newspapers second, it was only a matter of time before people across the country realized they were all the same and chose the best one.
I don't know why publishers and editors still don't get it ...
If you are going to be a national newspaper you have to compete with all of the other national newspapers (not to mention websites, blogs, television and radio stations).
If you concentrate on local news, you become a source of information your readers cannot find anywhere else.
It is obsolete the second it comes off of the press (likely even before) as it is old information.Here is where you are wrong. If, like the New York Times, you make things up then it really never becomes obsolete.
News might become stale or be old information, but there is no expiration date for fiction.
"Creative writing disguised as news is now reaping it's rewards."
"But there is no expiration date for fiction."
Who ever you are, and I assume you wrote both of these pearls, I now understand why people could be hooked a specific Journalist and buy a paper soley for his or her section.
Bravo to your writing. You speak to me on many levels. When do you start work for the WSJ or IBD?
11:39 AM LOL, steal away. But, if I catch you, I will jump up and down and spam an entire thread full of nothing but garbage about the sanctity of my copy rights!
2:30 PM That would actually be two different people. Literary genius is well represented here. Too bad that isn't so at my local newspaper.
Why would this be surprising? There's information in the WSJ.
And a +1000 to the idea of local news. What a concept, something no other paper in another city anywhere can compete with - your local news! Wow, how did you possibly think this up when all of these media moguls missed that thought.
Why would they do something where they have sole possession of the market place when they can have a pack of left-wing lunatics prattling on with the latest in Stalinist theory? By offering up only opinion, something everyone already has, they can show us that they're better than all the rest of us.
11:59-- so true. big mistake McClatchy has made is tossing those covering local stories out, but keeping others who are covering national stories. bad business decision that could cost them a business.
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Not a surprise to me. Business people depend on accuracy and real information. Creative writing disguised as news is now reaping it's rewards.
With the revelation that 50% of USA Today's circulation was in free editions to hotels the only real surprise left in print media will be when W. P. Carey changes the name of their new building from The NY Times Building to the W.P. Carey building since they own it now.
"Creative writing disguised as news is now reaping it's rewards."
Great quote (that I'm stealing)
It surprises me that it happened this soon, but I think everyone should have seen it coming.
When every major newspaper decided to become national newspapers first and local newspapers second, it was only a matter of time before people across the country realized they were all the same and chose the best one.
I don't know why publishers and editors still don't get it ...
If you are going to be a national newspaper you have to compete with all of the other national newspapers (not to mention websites, blogs, television and radio stations).
If you concentrate on local news, you become a source of information your readers cannot find anywhere else.
I find it funny that anyone would want to purchase anything that is printed.
It is obsolete the second it comes off of the press (likely even before) as it is old information.
Welcome to the Internet folks!
It is obsolete the second it comes off of the press (likely even before) as it is old information.Here is where you are wrong. If, like the New York Times, you make things up then it really never becomes obsolete.
News might become stale or be old information, but there is no expiration date for fiction.
"Creative writing disguised as news is now reaping it's rewards."
"But there is no expiration date for fiction."
Who ever you are, and I assume you wrote both of these pearls, I now understand why people could be hooked a specific Journalist and buy a paper soley for his or her section.
Bravo to your writing. You speak to me on many levels. When do you start work for the WSJ or IBD?
11:39 AM LOL, steal away. But, if I catch you, I will jump up and down and spam an entire thread full of nothing but garbage about the sanctity of my copy rights!
2:30 PM That would actually be two different people. Literary genius is well represented here. Too bad that isn't so at my local newspaper.
Why would this be surprising? There's information in the WSJ.
And a +1000 to the idea of local news. What a concept, something no other paper in another city anywhere can compete with - your local news! Wow, how did you possibly think this up when all of these media moguls missed that thought.
Why would they do something where they have sole possession of the market place when they can have a pack of left-wing lunatics prattling on with the latest in Stalinist theory? By offering up only opinion, something everyone already has, they can show us that they're better than all the rest of us.
Who are the "left-wing lunatics prattling on with the latest in Stalinist theory"? Be specific if you can.
11:59--
so true. big mistake McClatchy has made is tossing those covering local stories out, but keeping others who are covering national stories. bad business decision that could cost them a business.
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