tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001434439078518468.post1323978094841658116..comments2024-01-08T13:43:58.220-05:00Comments on Brillig: Newspapers, Again...The Brillig Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886394602447693115noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001434439078518468.post-43506028445380395622008-06-26T08:06:00.000-04:002008-06-26T08:06:00.000-04:00Dramatic changes in reading habits have hit print ...Dramatic changes in reading habits have hit print readership badly. Online Portals, Blogs, Social Networks, RSS, Mobiles, Podcasts are booming now and readers have addicted to such interactive and rich media. <BR/><BR/>Here’s few useful links on digital publishing / delivery<BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01SrlU41RJk<BR/>http://www.pressmart.netjohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17353840961781525550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001434439078518468.post-90641987948884140082008-06-13T10:52:00.000-04:002008-06-13T10:52:00.000-04:00I cancelled my subscription to the local newspaper...I cancelled my subscription to the local newspaper when I moved across the village four years ago. Most of the local articles had been replaced by AP and Reuters stories, and those sometimes cut off mid-story if they didn't fit the column space available. The editorials were written in the conglomerate's head office in Toronto and had nothing to do with happenings in our area. It was getting hard to find the stories amid all the advertisements, and yes, the comics section was deplorable. Recently I heard they had cancelled the weekly television guide insert. For my in-laws, that was the last straw and they've cancelled their subscription as well.<BR/><BR/>I get my news from the radio now (we don't have a tv station), and I miss the depth of coverage newspaper articles used to provide.Ulysseshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11702993322170403647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001434439078518468.post-6352622561741504172008-06-12T17:05:00.000-04:002008-06-12T17:05:00.000-04:00What's a newspaper?What's a newspaper?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001434439078518468.post-54664538506435187312008-06-12T15:03:00.000-04:002008-06-12T15:03:00.000-04:00Sadly I have to admit that I very rarely read any ...Sadly I have to admit that I very rarely read any newspaper in the traditional print format. Even in an online format my days perusing local or more national newspapers are few. I thought about this topic last weekend when my husband went out to buy a newspaper...so we could start a fire for a bbq. The burgers were good by the way. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps it's simply my generation (I'm only 25) that doesn't deign to read newspapers. But I don't really think that's true, I would read the castoffs of my father's newspaper as a kid quite frequently. My college days were spent largely unaware of anything but myself but I'm now much more interested in the news. I search for interesting and valid news almost daily but rarely find anything that isn�t inundated with nothingness. I don't really think this epidemic of vapid "news" stories and story-less papers is relegated only to the print industry but has spread into all of the other media outlets. <BR/><BR/>Print news has its own traditional glory that I think makes their downfall that much more heartbreaking. When you watch Superman or think about old newspapers there�s in depth reporting, detailed research and thrilling conclusions that in the past put fiction to shame. It�s sadly just not that way anymore. Perhaps it�s the progress of other forms of media sucked out the heart that newspapers used to have or perhaps it�s something else entirely. <BR/><BR/>I do believe my generation is focused on paperless news media. We don't like to carry such large documents around nor do we want to spend money on what we can find for free on the internet. That being said, there isn't much of anything out there to find. Like you said, why bother if there's nothing substantial to read within the paper?Lee Hornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16508786598970911458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001434439078518468.post-52709284675538024612008-06-12T09:52:00.000-04:002008-06-12T09:52:00.000-04:00Well, I think we know where I come down on the Sol...Well, I think we know where I come down on the Solaris Orbit debate. As far as newspapers...hm. Industries break. I agree with you that Zell's solution is the worst ever, but when readership is going down you have to try to come up with some way to sell to people who aren't currently reading. That may estrange current readership, but sometimes you have to make that kind of jump.<BR/><BR/>There has to be some kind of solution, but hell if I know what it is. Maybe the medium of choice for "serious journalism" will stop being the newspaper all together. A corporation certainly can't live on internet ad rates, but maybe individual journalists can. Because it seems to me that the chaff that needs cutting in newsrooms aren't the journalists.Tim Akershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01749644135364065658noreply@blogger.com