Newspapers
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Circling the Drain – Maybe the Government Can Help?
Policymakers have woken up to the plight of the newspapers and are on the problem: Post Post-Intelligencer The newsprint carcass of the Seattle PI isn’t even cold yet and we’re already learning new (and perhaps revisionist) things about the departed: The two best print newspapers in the United States – the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and the…
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Circling the Drain – More Time for the Times (of New York)
Slim is in for newspapers. Not only is the Times (of Seattle) getting slimmer and slimmer, but the Times (of New York) is getting slim too with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. Silicon Alley Insider reports: Carlos Slim has loaned the New York Times (NYT) $250 million. This further lessens the immediate cash crisis and should…
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Circling the Drain – “End Times” in May?
The Atlantic asks “can America’s paper of record survive the death of newsprint?” (hat tip to Steve): Virtually all the predictions about the death of old media have assumed a comfortingly long time frame for the end of print the moment when, amid a panoply of flashing lights, press conferences, and elegiac reminiscences, the newspaper…