http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2008/11/14/newspapers-not-out-of-the-wood-yet/

I wish they had a coupon only option. I might even be willing to pay an extra $.51 a week for the privilege of not straining the recyclers.

http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_altcaster&task=siteviewaltcast&altcast_code=9d7d485abd&height=550&width=470

And tagging posts on Twitter as #APIS

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003889485

This kicking them while they’re down attitude while saying egotistically “if only they’d listen to me” is of zero help. What about the larger issue of the threat to democracy? Who’s going to cover — who’s going to pay for — the longform, in-depth coverage that exposes corruption? I keep asking these questions and I never get any satisfactory answers. If I get one more answer that includes the term “citizen journalists” I’m going to puke. Find me one “citizen journalist” who would be motivated to cover an issue fairly and factually, without their own axe to grind.

His solutions are the same ones newspapers have been pursuing for more than a decade. Look where that’s gotten us. Be an Internet company, he’ll tell you. Give away all that once had value and everything will be Googleastic. He has no business model, he has a white flag.

When newspaper executives meet they need to lock Jarvis and his ilk out. No more snake oil.

Sorry, Joe. It’s gone, never to return. The mask slipped off this past election cycle and revealed what’s been suspected for decades. The media culture was and still is populated with anti-business types who think big government collectivism is the how economies should be run.

It’s ironic that free enterprise is the agent that’s putting you guys out of business. Newspapers never did manufacture and sell a product. They were merely a distribution system that delivered assembled words via hard copy. Think quill pen vs movable type.

That’s paraphrasing our publisher here at our east coast paper. Now we get about the task of leveraging this trust papers have spent years building.

http://www.slate.com/id/2204372/pagenum/all/#p2

At times like these I find your blog very inspiring.

@Frank.
Blogging is merely a medium. To say people will get bored of blogging is like saying they will get bored of telephoning.

It’s not the technology that attracts people, it’s what they are doing with it.

Blogging will only die when people tire of meeting, connecting, informing, learning, laughing, raging, worrying and of course, scolding.

Comic Book Guy: “No! Like most people under the age of 70, I get my news from the Internet. Good riddance, dinosaur!”

Yes, the newspaper industry is still necessary – but the delusional, out-of-touch, corporate stooges that run it – are not.

Let me see if I understand this: Because Frank is an idiot then none of the commenters here know what they are talking about. Interesting logic. He must be a newspaper executive.