CHICAGO TRIBUNE --- LA TIMES --- Bankruptcy on the horizon?

[Rastus]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tribune8-2008dec08,0,4487420.story   LA TIMES

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/tribune-hires-bankruptcy-advisers/   CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Looks like left wing comes with a price.  Too bad it didn't happen a couple of decades ago. 

All these newspapers crying about advertising....all it takes are readers.  I guess the sports and classifieds couldn't save their leftist views.......

[tombogan03884]

HA  HA

[TAB]

its not just them. All news papers have been hurting as of late.

[Fatman]

They should write more agenda-driven  articles and voice their thinly veiled views in the 'news'  to attract more readership. Oh, wait... it's those leftist positions that lost them their readership to begin with.

On second thought, they should hire me as editor in chief. I have no problem booting every editor and writer that decided to get into journalism "to make a difference" rather than report the news

[TAB]

I'd say the internet  did more damage to news papers then anything esle.

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

I'd say the internet  did more damage to news papers then anything esle.

Yes, the myth of "journalistic integrity" is just that, it used to be called "Yellow Journalism", It's what caused the Spanish American War, the Hearst papers vied with the Chicago papers in a subscription war by publishing increasingly lurid accounts of the situation in Cuba with no facts .
The papers have been losing readers since the advent of TV, it has gotten A LOT worse since the advent of the internet which gives people access to news tailored to their interests.

[Rastus]

Yes, the myth of "journalistic integrity" is just that, it used to be called "Yellow Journalism", It's what caused the Spanish American War, the Hearst papers vied with the Chicago papers in a subscription war by publishing increasingly lurid accounts of the situation in Cuba with no facts .
The papers have been losing readers since the advent of TV, it has gotten A LOT worse since the advent of the internet which gives people access to news tailored to their interests.

I'll say yes there has always been a twinge of yellow...I say twinge because iit was no way as bad as it is now.  The newspapers of today are downright UnAmerican.  In fact, I don't know that they are American. 

[Pathfinder]

its not just them. All news papers have been hurting as of late.

I'd say the internet  did more damage to news papers then anything esle.

These have been the standard liberal talking points about the press for a long time. Truth is, they are both just factors, along with the cost of purchasing the ads as well as the rags sheets every day. Our local paper costs almost $300 a year for a subscription and that's the Fargo, ND paper. And this paper relies mostly on AP wire stories to fill the paper.

But the reality is that most people, including myself, do not read the papers because of the spin, the bias, the intentional mis-representation of the facts along with ignoring inconvenient truths while pushing others.

Ever since Watergate, everyone in the press has been trying to find that "big" story that will propel them to the top of the reporting heap. Everyone, it seems, like that sports reporter in DC, thinks their opinion is news. So you have people across the country as "reporters" who find it easier to make things up than actually doing the work, just to get noticed.

[philw]

as we all know  The public debate on gun control is essentially conducted via the media. Newspaper and broadcast media usually support gun control, publishing editorials in favour of strong restrictions on firearms

[runstowin]

I found out a few days ago that Denver's oldest paper the Rocky Mountain News is for sale and will probably not get a buyer, but instead will close down early next year, not soon enough for me.
I wrote them 3 years ago when I didn't re-up my subscription that the printed yellow press was so 20th century.
Good riddance, and don't let the door slap you on the butt as you leave the world scene.