--The loss is particularly staggering when you consider this is the Sept 30-March 30 report, the traditional heavier snowbird season when papers' circs in south fla. were generally 10 percent higher than the March-September period...
--We put everything now on the Internet about 10 minutes after we file and are edited, so now readers can get major components of Sunday's newspaper online for free on Friday afternoon...
--Today's paper was 48 pages (about half ads/classified)...why would anyone pay 75 cents a day for that (which is what we've raised daily price to) when there's much more extensive coverage (more and longer stories, plus blogs) for free online...When it come to print, we charge more for less. What business can thrive or survive on that model?
--The only paper that has done a decent job of stanching the bloodletting is St. Pete, which still puts a premium on quality reporting, writing and editing (i.e., respecting "readers," which is what a newspaper should be doing, not dumbing down and tarting up). But then I see what's happened to Miami Herald, which has tried to do the same and their numbers are worse than ours (I can't believe our Sunday paper is now bigger than theirs)...Maybe St. Pete is just an anomaly because of its elderly white-bread English-speaking population.
Bottom line: We're all screwed. But we've known that for some time. Time to go from denial/anger to acceptance. And perhaps to law school, too.
The latest circulation numbers from Florida's largest newspapers are here.
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12 comments:
Ah we're at the acceptance phase!
But with a caveat. It is only acceptance in the context that MNI has collectively failed.
My hope is we can get to a more collectively responsible phase where each idiot, lib, Marxist who wrote, copied or edited MNI poison, realizes that it's EACH one of them who collectively doomed their paper and their specific financial futures.
But that's asking way too much from a filthy, lib, Marxist scum.
Isn't it?
Is it too much to ask for whiners like you to actually contribute something of worth than the usual drivel? What's it like to wake up every day hating your life to the point where you whine every day about the same thing?
Anon 11:37 a.m., you are SO on target. Not that it will do any good with this bunch ...
Maybe St. Pete is just an anomaly because of its elderly white-bread English-speaking population.Oooh, that sounds like a hate crime. LOL.
11:37 Why don't you answer your own question?
"What's it like to wake up every day hating your life to the point where you whine every day about the same thing?"
Given that we seem to have one troll on here using the same poor grammar, the same phraseology in every post, I should think you would have the best answer of all.
The rest of us are here chatting amongst ourselves, making arguments, learning from those in the profession and there's your posts, always whining, but never contributing anything in any way to the knowledge base of this blog.
It must really suck to be you.
Thank you for the reply. I work in ad sales routinely doing 120% to quota so sir, all due respect, life is good. I do apologize for the post and will refrain from critisizing those that appear to me as whiney out of work writers. I humbly apologize.
John, why are you upset about 11:37but not about 11:24, who wrote: "My hope is we can get to a more collectively responsible phase where each idiot, lib, Marxist who wrote, copied or edited MNI poison, realizes that it's EACH one of them who collectively doomed their paper and their specific financial futures. But that's asking way too much from a filthy, lib, Marxist scum."? Is that the kind of "making arguments, learning from those in the profession" that you're talking about?
Thank you for the reply. I work in ad sales routinely doing 120% to quota so sir, all due respect, life is good.
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Ah! I remember you. You're the 2k commissions (per month) tycoon!
Glad everything is going so well for you. I am sure it will continue just as well going forward. No need to plan or save. Carry on with the lavish income.
Anon 5:33 "Ah! I remember you. You're the 2k commissions (per month) tycoon!"
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Ok, new keyboard, bruised lung, and pulled abdominals. All because of your GREAT HUMOR!
I'll tell you why "John" is upset 2:17! He professes to be some kind of leader in his church but reading what he writes only convinces me that his fellow church members have no idea what kind of person they are in the midst of. I’m sure he calls the more compassionate member’s trolls behind their backs because that is the kind of person he is. Besides Dave D and the guy that likes to make reference to Goebells, moon-bats, jackals and Marxist, John is in good company on this site creating hate and perpetuating stupidity. Thank about it. If you were like him, you would be upset to…
If you were like him, you would be upset to…
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Man, I just don't know how to break this to you, but no one is upset. In fact, he's having a great time getting under your skin.
Any minimally educated person should have studied enough history to know that it is progressive thought, not conservatism, that moves society forward.
Think of Abe Lincoln, with his radical plan to free the slaves. Oh, but some of you guys would say that was a bad thing, eh? Or let's take Jesus Christ. He led the largest spiritual movement in the history of the world. But he was just a troll rabblerouser, right? Then there's Adolf Hitler: "Let's kill off everyone who's not like us," he said. What a great result his conservatism got us! A world war.
Rah rah, go conservatives.
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