Loading ...As ironic as it may be, newspapers are currently topping their own headlines. Well-known newspapers such as The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times are not only downsizing employees, but are also cutting sections and features from their publications. While the newspaper industry appears to be dying, the news itself is actually flourishing in other forms.
What’s the reason for all this? Some blame the economy and expect the government to bail out the newspapers. U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin introduced the Newspaper Revitalization Act to Congress, which would allow newspapers to operate as non-profit organizations if they wanted to. This week, Governor Chris Gregoire of Washington State approved a tax break for newspaper printers and publishers.
Some newspapers blame Google for their struggles claiming the search engine is stealing their content. Search industry leader Danny Sullivan disagrees. He believes newspapers actually get “special treatment” from Google. There are news publications that do not appear in Google news, but so many of the complaining newspapers do. These newspapers also receive a tremendous amount of traffic from Google that many other publications would readily appreciate.
Lastly, some even say the newspapers have created their own crisis. Has the newspaper industry embraced the Internet to its full potential? Could they have approached advertising in a different way that could have produced better benefits for them? Are they monetizing their traffic in the most effective manner?
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This is funny.. The Google guy said the newspapers should start charging for their online content, yet Google has a very strict “paid” link policy.. Ironically, Google is the leader in online paid content/link advertising.. Talk about being biased.
As an advertising results expert with 30 years of experience I believe newspapers have been dieing for years. We live in an electronic world. By the time one reads the newspaper, he or she has already seen the news on TV, heard it on radio or read the story on the internet. I would like to see newspapers continue to exist, but they have to compete with all other media, and they should do so without a bailout.
One thing I would like to see and hear is more positive news and fun stories! I am tired of shock and awe news coverage (Re: the swine flu etc) The news media believes only bad news sells so they emphasize what is wrong, not what is right and they blow stories out of proportion. Positive inspiring news would be a big improvement.
Newspapers blaming Google for their demise would be in keeping with their typical left leaning agendas and the lefts ‘victim’ mentality but it doesn’t fly with what’s really happening to them.
Their failure to live up to the term NEWS paper is the single most significant reason for their diminishing stature in our culture. They’ve become the agenda-driven OPINION reporters not NEWS papers. That has caused enormous growth on the Internet for legitimate news resources. And of course at some time they might even start blaming the ‘greening’ of America for their downfall because we’re turning more towards electronic media in our quest to treat the environment better.
Then to quote you; “U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin introduced the Newspaper Revitalization Act to Congress, which would allow newspapers to operate as non-profit organizations if they wanted to.”
Since the vast majority of the major newspapers in America are on board with the leftist agendas, of course the Administration and Congress will fall all over themselves to provide bailouts and tax initiatives to keep them alive.
It makes perfect sense to do that from the Fed’s perspective. My objection to that would be not based on the reasoning of the Administration and Congress but rather on the First Amendment.
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
They pretty much have the newspaper industry in their pockets already but ownership is more likely the Fed’s agenda if they move in to bailout the newspaper industry. The establishment of the religion of the left is really not the right of Congress according to the Constitution. But then again, Congress doesn’t view the Constitution a relevant document anymore.
“the vast majority of the major newspapers in America are on board with the leftist agendas”
Like the NY Post or Washington Times?
Your guy lost, get over it!
By comparison, the NY Post and Washington Times don’t really equate to the stature of Americas major newspapers that this article references.
MY guy didn’t even run. I would have voted for a moderate conservative had one been on the ballot.
Anyone that has a more conservative opinion than your own is a Republican? Anyone who expects newspapers to report news, and not cloud facts with their personal agendas are Republicans? Didn’t it alarm you that the newspapers wouldn’t thoroughly investigate a presidential candidate? They sure did a whack job on the conservative VICE presidential candidate! Their agenda was so obvious.
No matter who I vote for as an independent, I expect journalists to do their job. Their lack of ethical behavior, and negligence to their profession is what disgusts so many people. We have cancelled our paper subsriptions.
P.S. How ’bout that “Fairness Doctrine”?
“Didn’t it alarm you that the newspapers wouldn’t thoroughly investigate a presidential candidate?”
Are you one of those “his birth certificate is bogus” people? That’s just good stuff. Keep watching Fox News, I’m sure they’ll get to the bottom of it someday. LOL.
PS – Sarah Palin is the reason your guy lost, not the media! Don’t blame the media for what came out of _her_ mouth. Did you know her approval ratings have plummeted in Alaska since she ran as VP? Because people who didn’t know that much about her up there got to see what she is – an idiot and a phony.
Your arguments are subservient to your assumptions and therefore lacking substance. It is possible that some of us moderate conservatives are not Republicans, Libertarians or anything more that independent thinking people who see through the agendas of the media because we actually do our own research. I love the way some people attach ‘your guy lost’ and Sarah Palin and right wing crazies labels to everyone who has an opinion differing from their own. Once you paste the ‘label’ on someone of a differing viewpoint somehow their positions and beliefs are no longer valid. Your close mindedness is beginning to show.
I wish I had the set of problems that newspapers do as well.
BTW newspapers are owned by really rich right wing types (Rupert Murdock for instance). I guess they just aren’t right wing enough for some crazies out there . . .
Since the inception of newspapers as we know it, newspapers have had a staff of editors, writers and reports. In the beginning newspapers were written totally by the owner of the paper and maybe a family member or an aspiring writer who paraded as a reporter. Over time newspapers became more refined in it’s ability to gather news as well as profits. There was a time in our history when owners of newspapers were regarded as some of the wealthiest people in american culture. Magnates and socialites were the titles given to these cigar smoking fat cats. those days have fallen slow short and by the waist side.
As the world constantly changes, so do we. It’s called evolution. From the frontier into the industrial age. We all have found new and innovative ways to stay in step with the changes that envelop our very existence. A progression in our thinking as well as our deeds. All that has refused to evolve, can and will be found by the roadside. Dead!
We often hear about the responsibility newspapers have to it’s readers and very seldom hear of the responsibility newspapers have to themselves. Newspapers are no more a dying breed than the auto industry, or the basic telephone. These problems that plague the publications are tethered to it’s core model for which hasn’t changed in thirty or so years. A lack of creativity, insight, ingenuity, and just pure old hustle are the very things that plague publication. Not google!
When I first heard of failing publications pointing their woes towards 21st century technology, I could only shake my head in dis-belief. My first response was to get a newspaper.
After spending an hour or so locating a newspaper, the first thing I noticed was their content was very limited. The second thing was, I realized their was nothing there that said “I have to get one of these tomorrow”. Today in the here and now everything is content driven. Even information is content driven. The newspaper that I was holding was not. To make a long story short, it seems to me that newspapers are stuck in a long line behind themselves. Off the top of my head I can think of at least 10 different ways newspapers can increase their readership by 25% within a short period of time while directly effecting their bottom line in the same manner. Secondly, there was a time when a reporter was nothing more than a reporter. He or she went out and got the story. No matter what it took they knew the responsibility that came along with that honor. There are millions and millions of interesting stories that are un-beknown to an information hungry public that go unreported everyday. I know because I have one. One that reaches all the way to a district attorney’s office, sherriff’s dept, police dept, and state motor vehicle dept. There’s another unreported story I can think of where a doctor is transmitting stds to her mates. Sort of a black widow thing. You havent heard of those stories have you? Why? because reporters are no longer reporters. Reporters today are celebrities that find very little time to do their job.
Change the outdated publication model and you will change the bottom line.
I agree with Herb that news paper business has being dieing for years and it just can’t compete with other forms of media. Most of us have access to news in the palm of our hands and can stay up to date and to the minute on anything happening in the news. News papers have been providing news but their content is neither new and allot of times it is duplicated or shared. Newspapers don’t make money on selling news papers alone. Newspapers rely heavily on advertisers buying spots in their newspaper and that is where most of their revenue comes from. If I am an advertiser and I can reach a more targeted audience and at a cheaper price. It is only a matter of time that newspapers with become a thing of the past.
What is killing the newspapers is they are not relavent anymore. Its so much easier to get the same content online. Advertising in the newspaper is 10 times the cost with 10% of the success as other forums. They are killing thierselve. They need to look at thier pricing model and business strategy rather than Google for thier down fall.
Good death to the papers to be honest, There a waste of paper in the masses and thankfully a dying mass. The internet is everywhere, the internet is always up to date a paper is once a day… case closed.
The papers are being given readers they never would have reached from a larger demographic market that is their normal distribution process.
Sorry, fix your advertising rates to attract revenue.
Google Alerts provides a topical summary. I need to visit the actual paper’s page to get the content.
David Pylyp
Internet should be their new pistol
Newspapers report mostly negative stories. My small city recently held a Music Festival where 8,000 students ages 6-22 competed in 400 classes playing and singing in a wide variety of styles. Any mention of it in the only local newspaper?? Nope. Some years back there was a special “Kids Page” on weekends, and more coverage on schools. There is almost no coverage of high school graduations, etc. Parents still like to see their kid’s name in the paper, and would buy the paper to have the article. Many other features are gone too. What about prices? It cost me $300 to publish a modest size obituary of my mother in the paper. Pretty sad if you ask me. That’s my opinion.
First off, within the last ten years or more, the newspaper industry has been slowly dying off. Subscriptions have been continually falling year after year, and with the internet making more advanced features with regards to delivering content – it will only get worse. I am all for keeping jobs, but lets not forget who owns these industry giants. They are more worried about losing their own personal wealth than they are about their employees or communities that they serve.
If you believe google has anything to do with the newspaper industry falling, than you will believe almost anything that is told to you. The newspaper industry knew over fifty years ago that they would have to continually change to keep pace. This because of Television. They knew than that television was going to take a bite out of advertising and of course, news.
Now, the newspaper industry must compete with something greater than television, the internet.
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if it is in news paper its old news. internet is always up to date .
mr. paper man sorry take up writing a book or work for google $$$$$
jc from syracuse ny
This is sad for the people that will loose their job… But, it is good for our Mother Earth – less paper consumption. But let’s face it; Internet is unbeatable in entertainment industry today and it’s getting stronger. Look at music CDs for example. In a couple of years from now CDs will die, or any kind of a “hard copy media”. It costs money to produce CDs and it costs money to buy paper and print newspapers. PC Magazine went digital few months ago, and printed issues do not exist anymore. This is one example of this “Digital Conversion”, and I am sure other magazines/newspapers will follow in the nearest future.
Thank you for sharing your information.
Thanks to the internet, people now realize newspapers and magazines are pathological liars committing terrorist crimes and treason. Which is why Rupert Murdoch and David Rockefeller say the internet must die.
“Within the next 12 months, the current days of the internet will soon be over.”
-Sir Rupert Murdoch Knight of the British Empire, London Guardian, News Corp will charge for newspaper websites, says Rupert Murdoch, Current days of free internet will soon be over, says media mogul, 7 May 2009
prisonplanet.com/rupert-murdoch-internet-will-soon-be-over.html
Australian Murdoch’s wife Deng Wen Di, aka Wendi Deng, is a citizen of Communist China, which now owns Fox News, Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones.
piratenews.org/fox-news-owned-by-communist-china.html
Case in point, this week the world dictators are holding a “top secret” (censored) meeting in Greece at their annual “Bilderberg Group”. Owners of the media cartel are there with kings, queens and banksters, telling illegal alien Hussein Obama what to do to destroy USA for their global NWO dictatorship. Total media blackout, except for London Guardian, who sent a comedian who was arrested 3 times in 3 days.
youtube.com/watch?v=I2WnPrP7IfU&feature=channel
guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/14/bilderberg-charlie-skelton-dispatch
infowars.net/articles/may2009/140509Detained.htm
infowars.net/articles/may2009/130509Guardian.htm
Google Video is part of this cartel, which put alternative video producers out of business by free online videos. Now Google is censoring, banning and deleting all 100-million+ videos. Google’s Youtube is banning music videos, weapons and commentary.
piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2009/04/case-of-censored-videos.html
Yahoo is censoring, banning and deleting all 35-million free websites.
piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2009/04/yahoo-bans-all-33-million-free-websites.html
Google/Yahoo was founded by CIA, and Fox was counded by MI6, so censorship is SOP.
infowars.net/articles/march2008/310308Google.htm
prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/061206seedmoney.htm
This is a world war and a fight to the death. Who will win?
Newpapers; Old News!!!
Newpapers haven’t kept up with new technology; They charge too much, they do not allow the levels of control, they are not unbias… Political cash pays them to publish spins on storys, this creates twisted truth.
Newspaper have far too long monopolized the media industry, and have not realised the power of the internet. The advance of the internet has spead like wild fire and has caught by suprize not only the newspapers but many a industry. I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again. This is the age of people power the power is returning to the people and the internet is making it possible for the ordinary man to quickly become the expert in his choosen field.
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The Knoxville News Sentinel newspaper in Tennessee was given a TIF Taxslave Investment Fund grant of $20-million a few years ago, thanks to our Skull & Bones mayor/ambassador Victor “Victoria” Ashe, GW Bush’s roommate and fellow cheerleader at all-male Yale, and alleged gay lover (their dominatrix Leola McConnell wrote a book about their 3-way, Lustfull Utterances, then she disappeared and is presumed murdered, like Cheney’s DC madam). So KNS already gets all the bailout money it wants, for free.
KNS delivers all the propaganda Big Brother requires, such as lying and censoring the fact that owners of redlight traffic cameras export 90% of ticket tax to Australia (Redflex) and Communist China (Lasercraft).
piratenews.org/kill-robocops.html
Google does seem to be censoring many search results in USA, of sites that formerly turned up routinely. Even sites that I know got 100,000s of hits barely show up on google now. Blogspot.com barely turns up in google, with a max of one page out of 100s. Blogs on myspace and yahoo groups are likewise invisible to google.
Ironically, the only page on my blog that appears on google is regarding the illegal ban of my TV show on public access, due to its political content.
piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2009/02/pirate-news-tv-banned.html
Here’s what google has to say for itself:
“Thank you for sharing your concern. As you may know, we currently only include articles from sources that could be considered organizations, generally characterized by the following: multiple writers and editors, availability of organizational information, and accessible contact information. This evidence of an organization is still not available on your site. We appreciate your interest in Google. Regards, The Google Team.”
“Why not improve the brain? Perhaps in the future, we can attach a little version of Google that you plug into your brain. We’ll have to develop stylish versions, but then you’ll have all the world’s knowledge immediately available, which is pretty exciting.”
-Brin, David Vise and Mark Malseed, The Google Story, page 292
“We are not scanning all those books to be read by people. We are scanning them to be read by an A.I.”
-George Dyson, conversation with his hosts at Google
Is google Skynet?
Owners of Google are meeting at Nazi Bilderberg Group secret society this week in Greece, to conspire with media moguls and talking heads how to terminate the planet.
prisonplanet.com/articles/june2008/060608_b_list.htm
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Our main Central Ohio newspaper used to include a website link with paid classifieds. Then as web marketing methods expanded, the newspaper’s methods decreased, resulting in their leaving interactive links out altogether. Either grow or die, just like the rest of business, folks. Greed doesn’t work no matter how you look at it.
Some newspapers blame Google for their struggles.
I have been expecting this before since the internet arrived. Through internet we can read news not only from various news websites but also from blogs which is more easy to find that the regular news paper.
News agencies can be benefited too with the internet so they should not blame internet for their losses.
As a former newspaper editor and reporter, and now a creator of websites, I can see both sides of this issue. Ten years ago, I recommended to my (then) boss that we provide an online version of our small town paper because that seemed to be the wave of the future. He didn’t seem impressed, and found many excuses not to take the next step. Just as the days of setting type are gone, so are the days of creating only a product that leaves ink stains on your fingers. It’s a smart publisher who combines a hard copy with an online product!
I’ll tell you what!
give me one of these failing big conglomerate newspapers and sit back and watch how much money I make. I guess the record companies will be suing google soon as well. How do they survive with all of the free downloads of their music through google. I’ll tell you how. they changed their model. They have learned to evolve with the new technologies. As i said in my previous comments. I can think of at least ten different ways to increase readership in the newspapers.
Google offers many things for free, and monitizes the traffic with advertising. There are many free offline newspapers that monitize their free publication with advertising revenues. If this is the way the world turns right now, shouldn’t the traditionsla newspapers jump on board as well? The record industry and Yellow Pages have learned as well that the rules have changes, and you better adapt or you’ll be seriously downsized!
There are two simple reasons for the dying of the newspapers. First is obviously that they have not embraced technology. They could “reinvent” themselves and find a way to compete. They could offer features that could attract readerships…what exactly those are I don’t know….I would leave that up to the Marketing folks. I can think of one thing. They could tie themselves better to an on-line presence and perhaps offer better rates for classified ads. Craigslist is free and the classifieds are pretty expensive.
Second is content. People are wising up that many newspapers do not objectively report the news. They frequently have liberal political agendas. They have become uncredible sources of information. In catering to a subset of people they have lowered their readership.
I could care less if they die out. My tax money better not go to any bailouts for them ! That would be more money wasted (as if we haven’t had enough of that lately !).
Exactly!
As the webmaster of a news media directory, I am truly amazed at how many newspaper websites omit one little detail: Where on Earth they are. Underneath the title, The Daily Times, they should say the city, province and country, but they forget that they address a world-wide audience on the Internet and think they’re only talking to locals. For contact information, they show no Earth address, only a webmail contact form. They don’t want to get listed in my geographic directory, I guess.
Nice Directory ! Get news anywhere especially for travelers. Cool!
I agree with pizzaman7 specifically “Second is content. People are wising up that many newspapers do not objectively report the news. They frequently have liberal political agendas. They have become uncredible sources of information. In catering to a subset of people they have lowered their readership.”
They have completely lost journalistic credibility. They have totally immersed themselves in liberal politics. I used to be a paper boy and used to love reading the newspaper. When the internet really started to take hold in 2001-2 I realize that they were not embracing and capitalizing on a media that they could have completely dominated. They dug in and now are buried by their stubbornness.
They will soon become a relic of the past.
What on earth do people mean when they squawk about “liberal media”, while nodding vigorously at the screaming rants of Limbaugh & O’Reilly? Is that what conservatives mean by “objectivity”? Or maybe it’s Faux News relentlessly waving a flag instead of actually asking questions like journalists ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.
Or do you mean objectivity is hounding Democrat politicians with expensive, pointless, meaningless investigations like Whitewater & Lewinski, while brushing far more expensive conservative TREASON like Bush & Cheney lying to force us into war, & sabotaging active agents like Plame?
Find me a paper that is actually owned by a liberal & maybe I’ll buy this worn-out line.
RE:ffelix “Or maybe it’s Faux News relentlessly waving a flag instead of actually asking questions like journalists ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.” I know for a fact that you have never watched Bill or Glenn Beck..or any of the FNC shows because that statement is that battle cry of Beck alone. The lame media that you blindly support NEVER asks any questions. Glenn specifically ask for the why of that very issue.They are always asking, WHY?? Why is California a poster child for lib government completely broke and may lose it’s sovereignty if the fed (tax payers) have to bail them out? ffelix you need to read and watch the channels yourself not just listen to your friends and mBSnc
I second carl above and this is something I really have no clue and admit I do not understand why the newspapers have not been “embracing and capitalizing on a media that they could have completely dominated” .Is it that they thought their resource revenue is protected and competition-proof? A concrete example is the US and Canadian newspapers shy reaction to their long-dominated niche of classified ads advertising. A simple googling for house for sale ads,apartments for rent or used cars will not return any of the famed and prestigeous newspapers of the two countries in google’s first page.They are not even in the second page. I think it is shameless for the newspapers to ask for taxpayers money to bail them out when they can impact a change by just restructing their marketing priorities
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I second carl above and this is something
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Newspapers are dying because they are employing an outdated technology. It’s that simple and also that irrevocable.
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Newspapers are dying but I won’t be crying my eyes out over it. I use the Internet to get the information I need. And if the best information comes from a newspaper web site, I will get it from there. If not, other sources beckon…
What this technology tests is to what extent journalists feel they are agenda-setters who also lead a community rather than tell people what they want to hear?
While newspapers used to be a useful for uncovering government corruption and highlighting social problems, they are falling down at this now in their never ending focus on selling overpriced advertising. Newspapers have abandoned the hard hitting, independent journalism that they used to be respected for.
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