R.I.P. The Times-Picayune

[RoryN]

New Orleans' famous daily newspaper. It'll get knocked back to three days a week...well on its way to ceasing publication altogether as a print newspaper.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Sad. I thought the print media death knell purge had plateaued already. Especially in the major metropolitan cities.

 

[JuanVato]

just sad...

Progress sometines sucks.

Few Gen X's read the paper and Millenials could care less.

Sure enjoyed that paper at one time.

 

[Ldy_Sea]

In ten years I seriously doubt there will be any newspapers left and news magazines, Hell all magazines will be dying out. All info will flow through the interwebs, and god help us Wikipedia will be the encyclopedia of choice.

God help us all.

 

[Beco]

New Orleans' famous daily newspaper. It'll get knocked back to three days a week...well on its way to ceasing publication altogether as a print newspaper.

Its going the way of the evening news.....

Anyone that can't see that print media is a dying business, well....is blind. Newspapers will exist, mainly in small towns, but the majority of them will all be on the internet.

 

[FloridaCouple]

I thought R.I.P meant Raped in Prison !?!?!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Progress sometines sucks.

Few Gen X's read the paper and Millenials could care less.

Sure enjoyed that paper at one time.

Exactly. The morning newpaper was part of my routine for more years than I care to admit, now I just logon and have my news delivered electronically. Honestly, the only time I read the paper now is when I'm on the road and USA Today is delivered outside my hotel room.

 

[Beco]

Exactly. The morning newpaper was part of my routine for more years than I care to admit, now I just logon and have my news delivered electronically. Honestly, the only time I read the paper now is when I'm on the road and USA Today is delivered outside my hotel room.

yup....I even take an iPad or iPhone into the bathroom to read on the bowl....

life does change....

 

[RobDownSouth]

I thought R.I.P meant Raped in Prison !?!?!

For you, yes.

 

[Sean]

I'll stick with buying the Grauniad every morning to read over breakfast as long as they keep printing it. One of life's more civilised pleasures.

 

[eyer]

Buffet Leads The Drive For Free Online Content Death

Warren Buffet buys 26 local papers, calls free online news 'unsustainable'

Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, Inc has announced it is purchasing 26 local papers, all locals. In a letter to the publishers, Buffet said that the papers would need to focus as much as possible on local issues rather than try to compete on national ones. More interestingly, Buffet weighed in on the perennial issue of whether newspapers can give away their news online:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/26/3044259/warren-buffet-buys-26-local-papers-calls-free-online-news

Buffett says his firm likely to buy newspapers

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett says his company is likely to buy more newspapers in the next few years, and Berkshire Hathaway will not try to influence the editorial policies of any of them.

Buffett wrote a memo this week to the editors and publishers of all of Berkshire's daily newspapers. That group is about to grow to include 26 daily newspapers because Berkshire announced last week that it plans to buy 63 newspapers from Media General Inc. for $142 million.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...wt5v-w?docId=2b6b55d3942a4636b320dfebb135bc7f

.....

 

[phrodeau]

In ten years I seriously doubt there will be any newspapers left and news magazines, Hell all magazines will be dying out. All info will flow through the interwebs, and god help us Wikipedia will be the encyclopedia of choice.

God help us all.

If you find something wrong in Wikipedia and you can back it up, you can change it yourself instead of whining about it.

 

[renard_ruse]

Its going the way of the evening news.....

Anyone that can't see that print media is a dying business, well....is blind. Newspapers will exist, mainly in small towns, but the majority of them will all be on the internet.

You actually have no idea what the future will hold, nor does anyone. Who is going to win the Super Bowl in 2025? I'd like to put some money on it, so let me know oh prescient one.

 

[renard_ruse]

If you find something wrong in Wikipedia and you can back it up, you can change it yourself instead of whining about it.

Though Wikipedia does have a lot of valuable information it is no substitute for a real good old fashioned encyclopedia and certainly not as a sole research tool. Its a good place to start, but not the end all of any research.

 

[renard_ruse]

People claim that newspapers are dying because of the internet and smart phones, and certainly that is a part of it, but they had started dying even before the internet became widely used in the mid-90s. People became tired of the extreme and arrogant liberal bias in them, as well as in the weekly "news" (ie propaganda) magazines.

I remember I used to read the LA Times everyday when I was in high school, but I gradually started to see the extreme bias in that worthless rag of birdcage liner. I don't know if it got more biased or if I was just increasingly conscious of the bias, but it got to the point by the time I was in college I couldn't even look at that thing without screaming and throwing at the wall across the room it was so biased and obnoxious.

Yes, technological change hurt newspapers but they also hurt themselves with their extreme bias. People want facts, not propaganda.

 

[Sean]

People claim that newspapers are dying because of the internet and smart phones, and certainly that is a part of it, but they had started dying even before the internet became widely used in the mid-90s. People became tired of the extreme and arrogant liberal bias in them, as well as in the weekly "news" (ie propaganda) magazines.

I remember I used to read the LA Times everyday when I was in high school, but I gradually started to see the extreme bias in that worthless rag of birdcage liner. I don't know if it got more biased or if I was just increasingly conscious of the bias, but it got to the point by the time I was in college I couldn't even look at that thing without screaming and throwing at the wall across the room it was so biased and obnoxious.

Yes, technological change hurt newspapers but they also hurt themselves with their extreme bias. People want facts, not propaganda.

So how do you explain the demise of British papers which are overwhelmingly right wing?

 

[Beco]

.....

Warren Buffet isn't always right....John Cooke, son of Jack Kent Cooke, ex Redskins owner is also investing in small town newspapers, spending millions.

I guess you can still find Carters Liver Pills or buggy whips somewhere in this world....nothing disappears completly

 

[RoryN]

People want facts, not propaganda.

...and yet you still think people give serious consideration to your posts.

 

[CHNOPS]

So how do you explain the demise of British papers which are overwhelmingly right wing?

In Britain, cars drive on the opposite side of the road from us. So right is left, and therefore his point is correct.

 

[Dazzle1]

It was a pretty bad paper anyway

 

[Phelia]

It's not worth being sad over. Regional papers will die, but it's a changing world. The behemoth publications that are inextricably tied to our idea of a "newspaper" aren't going anywhere. Printed versions are being phased out, yes, but they'll still exist for a long while and will probably even enjoy a brief resurgence in popularity in a few years - we're suckers for nostalgia.

In the meantime, the shift towards digital brings with it almost exclusively positive implications. Faster and more convenient delivery, informed curation, intelligent reader comments (Once companies get good at troll control, this is going to be huge. News stories are now living, evolving and participatory. That's cool!). There are kinks to be worked out - as biz dev and marketing teams equate dollars to eyeballs, we may see and uptick in headlines about celebrities and kittens, but it will probably shift towards a model where you read and pay for what you want, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, though I think it's important to expose yourself to the world beyond your biases.

In the meantime, if these paper giants (meant literally and figuratively) are serious about surviving, they'll need to focus on culling their content - they need to be exceptional to compete with the ocean of free information, and by this I mean hey NYT get Thomas Friedman the fuck out of your columnist roster, okay? He's such a wang.

Humans are creatures of habit, but we're also adaptive. You'll find a new way to make your morning cheerios less boring.

I think the bigger concerns in the death of print are the implications for the crossword puzzle as we know it. It's pen and paper or nothing (if you use pencil, I judge you). I will DIE before I do a crossword on an iPad.

 

[Loring2]

Progress sometines sucks.

Few Gen X's read the paper and Millenials could care less.

Sure enjoyed that paper at one time.

JV, I read that paper, well, almost religiously while in college and I have (had, I guess) a subscription, sent to me in SF, CA for many years. I'll miss it.
And the reason Gen X-ers don't read the paper is because most of them can't read.

 

[renard_ruse]

So how do you explain the demise of British papers which are overwhelmingly right wing?

The Guardian is so far right it sometimes seems left.

 

[renard_ruse]

...and yet you still think people give serious consideration to your posts.

Yet you still think people give serious consideration to your existence.

 

[Sean]

The Guardian is so far right it sometimes seems left.

The Guardian and The Daily Mirror are the only two leftish national daily papers in the UK. All the others are right wing.