I don’t know – I think you may have to figure out how to suspend the law of Supply and Demand. The Supply of content has become effectively infinite.
I wonder if newspapers shouldn’t just junk print – which is hugely expensive – go all digital, and include local information, which is one thing you don’t get from the internet. And have an advertising section that customers will intentionally seek, like a newspaper has, where local merchants can advertise and you can find the local bargains.
As for online charges, people might give $5 or $10 a month to one newspaper. They AREN’T going to give money to every newspaper they click on, whether you block access or not. Drives me crazy: “You value our content and so do we.” I don’t know if I value it – I haven’t seen it yet. And yours is the sixth article I’ve looked at this morning. All blocking access will accomplish is making your paper less visible, and therefore less relevant.
ikini and others: As I stated earlier this week, except for major metropolitan areas anymore, newspapers aren’t locally owned. Back in the day (when I was living in various communities across America), Gannett was the owner of many, if not most, small town newspapers.
Local issues, not too bad; national, it was all Gannett. Kind of like your “local” television stations anymore; they do have “local” staff, but their national and international news is often Fox or Sinclair.
Perhaps, in a way, what Ignatz proposed, above, has already happened, sort of, with an emphasis on “sort of.” We all have our favorite news sources – and likely, those sources are “free” (if I have to pay in order to sample and evaluate what you have to say, then perhaps what you have to say is not worth sampling and evaluating – the new modus operandi). The headache being, that is part of how we ended up selecting only those sources that reinforce what we already believe. “Alt Facts,” you know.
Right now, I’m thinking the number of newspapers that are still independent may be counted on the fingers of only one hand. I’m not even sure my local fish wrapper here in Denver is independent anymore. And we lost our second newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News, good grief, was that a decade ago? (Effort was made to resurrect it as an Internet Only rag, not sure how that’s working for them)
Bottom line: I have to agree with Carmen above: Good journalism, true journalism, costs money, and the present environment seems to demand that everything be available for free!
And right now, opinions are a lot cheaper than true information!
I am willing to support a newspaper that reports news that is without significant bias. I expect some bias, but I do not want to read what is out there now. Unless one is a newspaper opinion columnist, please keep the opinions out of the reported events. I think I am expecting too much in these times.
Darsan54 Premium Member about 5 years ago
Yes, money but can we expect a coyote to understand the concept.
braindead Premium Member about 5 years ago
How many newspapers still have editorial cartoonists on staff?
pschearer Premium Member about 5 years ago
Gutenberg: Time Magazine’s Man of the Millennium. (I wonder who the next one will be.)
ikini Premium Member about 5 years ago
Just sent off a check for a yearly subscription to my small town newspaper.
Ignatz Premium Member about 5 years ago
I don’t know – I think you may have to figure out how to suspend the law of Supply and Demand. The Supply of content has become effectively infinite.
I wonder if newspapers shouldn’t just junk print – which is hugely expensive – go all digital, and include local information, which is one thing you don’t get from the internet. And have an advertising section that customers will intentionally seek, like a newspaper has, where local merchants can advertise and you can find the local bargains.
As for online charges, people might give $5 or $10 a month to one newspaper. They AREN’T going to give money to every newspaper they click on, whether you block access or not. Drives me crazy: “You value our content and so do we.” I don’t know if I value it – I haven’t seen it yet. And yours is the sixth article I’ve looked at this morning. All blocking access will accomplish is making your paper less visible, and therefore less relevant.
Cheapskate0 about 5 years ago
ikini and others: As I stated earlier this week, except for major metropolitan areas anymore, newspapers aren’t locally owned. Back in the day (when I was living in various communities across America), Gannett was the owner of many, if not most, small town newspapers.
Local issues, not too bad; national, it was all Gannett. Kind of like your “local” television stations anymore; they do have “local” staff, but their national and international news is often Fox or Sinclair.
Perhaps, in a way, what Ignatz proposed, above, has already happened, sort of, with an emphasis on “sort of.” We all have our favorite news sources – and likely, those sources are “free” (if I have to pay in order to sample and evaluate what you have to say, then perhaps what you have to say is not worth sampling and evaluating – the new modus operandi). The headache being, that is part of how we ended up selecting only those sources that reinforce what we already believe. “Alt Facts,” you know.
Right now, I’m thinking the number of newspapers that are still independent may be counted on the fingers of only one hand. I’m not even sure my local fish wrapper here in Denver is independent anymore. And we lost our second newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News, good grief, was that a decade ago? (Effort was made to resurrect it as an Internet Only rag, not sure how that’s working for them)
Bottom line: I have to agree with Carmen above: Good journalism, true journalism, costs money, and the present environment seems to demand that everything be available for free!
And right now, opinions are a lot cheaper than true information!
danholt about 5 years ago
I get mad, when after paying for an online subscription, I’m still inundated with ads that obscure and distract from the content…
Phrosty 12Oaks about 5 years ago
I am willing to support a newspaper that reports news that is without significant bias. I expect some bias, but I do not want to read what is out there now. Unless one is a newspaper opinion columnist, please keep the opinions out of the reported events. I think I am expecting too much in these times.
Jim Kerner about 5 years ago
And, spinning in his grave, sorry to say.