This photo of abandoned newspaper racks in a San Francisco storage yard -- taken March 13, 2009 -- is visual evidence of the decline in the newspaper industry. (Photo credit: AP/Noah Berger) More here..
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This photo of abandoned newspaper racks in a San Francisco storage yard -- taken March 13, 2009 -- is visual evidence of the decline in the newspaper industry. (Photo credit: AP/Noah Berger) More here.
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I saw that on Boston's site this morning but I really don't know that it really shows what they are saying. Even during the circ heyday here in sacramento we always had 100 old newspaper racks stored out in transportation, victims of vandalism or just failure waiting to be recycled or repaired I wonder if some portion of those boxes have been setting there for quite sometime but now a picture like that can make another statement.
Exactly what Anon 3:29 said. Go to any newspaper - even smaller ones - and you'll see 20 or 30 old newspaper racks that either don't work or were vandalized. It has been this way for decades. Also, I think I see a number of "freebee" racks in this photo, meaning they aren't newspaper racks but, rather, racks for auto and real estate free pubs that come and go at a high rate in big cities.
Much ado, meet nothing.
Top 100 Excuses for a McClatchyite.
99) Those are just extra boxes hanging out on the back 40.
Thanks guys, we almost got her done.
No one called them extra, they're malfunctioning or defaced boxes no longer in use. Though they should find someone to take them and recycle the materials.
As noted above, there are a lot of free paper racks in that picture. That may not be a good sign for Fort Worth's little planned weekly.
Those are boxes that were collected by the city and kept in its storage yard after a consolidated box program was developed to keep stand-alone boxes from cluttering up the sidewalks.
(This makes sense when you look at the variety of different publications represented in the photo -- obviously they are not stacked in a particular newspapers storage yard)
Do you mean to say that taxpayers are footing the bill to collect and store unused boxes owned by the local newspapers?
Headline:
-Photos Of Abandoned Newspaper Racks Tell The Industry's Story-
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The AP and other newspapers are notorious for formulating lead headlines that do not match the actual story. So now we have a headline turned against the former perpetrators. Man, that must sting! This is great amusement for those that saw the light a long time ago. Stumble on fools, stumble on.
@March 20, 2009 9:45 AM
If I've read everything correctly on this particular photo, it seems a bit worse than that. Seems that not only is the city paying for those boxes storage, but also for the new "modular news racks." Maybe, if the taxpayers are lucky, the newspapers are helping with a bit of that cost, but I wouldn't bet on it.
It's art of a failed industry
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