| Author | Message | ||
     Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1129 Registered: 01-2005 |
With some of the dire reports coming out about the decline in printed newspapers, I wonder how long will it be before some of the major ones pack it in? Some may survive by providing news on line I suppose. With a lot of todays youth declining to get their news view the printed form, the future doesn't look rosey. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 135 Registered: 02-2008 |
When the newspaper of record is having trouble I think thats a bad sign. I bet their all cursing Al Gore for inventin the internet. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1121 Registered: 08-2006 |
I read an interview with Arianna Huffington not long back where she was crowing that sites like hers are the new model for newspapers. But 90% of the stuff on the site is linked from real new sources with real reporters who commit real resources to cover real stories. When she and other so-called "online newspapers" puts the old-fashioned print folks out of business, who's gonna fund the staff for a news bureau in Iraq or London or East Timor? Newsgathering ain't cheap, and I don't see any of these "brave new world" outlets coughing up the cash for it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2110 Registered: 05-2005 |
My prediction: serious newspapers aimed at the upper end of the market, eg The New York Times, The Guardian, The Irish Times (and I've written for two of those three), will survive because of the resources they put into news gathering (as Rob outlined above). Tabloids aimed at the lower end of the market, you know the ones, with their daily diet of celebrities and scantily clad titillation, will start closing en masse within five years, maybe within three. Celebrity gossip and naked young ladies can be found for free on the internet, and almost everyone in the western world now has easy daily access to the web at home or at work. Newspapers will become more expensive and carrying one will become a serious status symbol. I'll still be buying them. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2299 Registered: 05-2005 |
I wonder how the Daily's ABC circulation figs compare now with say, 5 years ago. Anyone got a BRAD? | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 170 Registered: 04-2005 |
Please, Please, Please, Please let it be the s*n in the UK (highly unlikely but I can wish). Kelvin McKenzie and his mob will never be forgotten by either myself or the whole of Merseyside. Cheers Jon |