"story that we can see through Florida eyes"

What, you mean a typical Florida story involving crazy tweakers and weird-assed subject matter? Shit, those practically write themselves.

Civil servants still command wages and benefits in the billions but the nation's newspapers are gone and imposters -- liars and thieves in sheep's clothing -- have stepped into the breach.

I sent this to 75 neighbors Saturday announcing I sold the domain name of our worst local offender, which oddly enough, no longer bounces to gayporn.com.

WarehamObserver.Com's banner is downtown, a block or so away, owned almost entirely by absentee landlords. Of my 75 civic minded sheeple, less than a third visited the site. Only 3 responded to my email.

Houston, we have a problem.

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“To make the front page, it has to be a significant development or a story that we can see through Florida eyes,” said Sharon Rosenhause. . .

We're doomed.

Husband™ and I had a conversation about the newspaper "industry" not too long ago.  We both saw what American manufacturers went through in the 80s when their economic realities shifted.  (I had a personal stake in the textile business, which went through almost literal hell.)  Many manufacturers died completely; but many survived by restructuring and--this is the important thing--changing their perception of reality to match, um, reality.

Print media no longer have any edge at all on "breaking" news--there's no way they can ever be ahead of electronic media, and immediacy is what the people want.  Print media has lost timeliness, and will never get it back.  They have to internalize this fact.

The papers that survive will do so by focusing on LOCAL news and on analysis, on depth of reporting.  A lot of them don't seem to understand this, even though it's been head-smashingly obvious for a long time now.  Those who continue to fail to get it are going to vanish. 

From my memories of what American textile enterprise went through, the change is going to be exquisitely painful.  Many if not most newspapers and magazines are going to die a lingering horrible death.

The print arena that will be left after all the dying is over will be much smaller but the wily ones will adapt and survive.  Print media will never go away completely; but like the railroads, they're going to have to accept a much smaller piece of the cake than they've been used to.

choad wrote:

Which is, what, the latest saddle sniffer - a snarf, according to Vonnegut?

It's probably the major topic of conversation among newspaper professionals these days, even though it's been a fact for more than a decade.

The Express-News, a Hearst paper, is San Antonio's only daily, am I right?

I have no idea.  I don't read the papers.  (Don't kill me.)  But I expect you are right.

George, credible news reporting is already dead, a quaint and extinct fossil relic of byone era.

That snarf's been a fact for some time--since forever, depending on where you look.