I have an idea re: the death of newspapers...

Subdivisions

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Mon May-18-09 08:51 AM
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I have an idea re: the death of newspapers...

Edited on Mon May-18-09 08:53 AM by Subdivisions

The Daily Telegraph's exclusive revelations about MPs' expenses boosted circulation by nearly 100,000 copies on Friday, giving the paper a bigger boost than a promotional DVD giveaway.

On that day, when the Daily Telegraph published the first of its series of exclusives with details of the expenses of the prime minister, Gordon Brown, and other Labour cabinet ministers, circulation rose by 93,000 copies above that on the previous Friday, according to unofficial figures seen by MediaGuardian.co.uk.

Sales of Saturday's Daily Telegraph, with its revelations about other government ministers, and the Sunday Telegraph, with its revelations about Sinn Fein, were also up tens of thousands of copies on the previous weekend, but precise figures were not available. Web traffic to Telegraph.co.uk has also surged, according to Telegraph Media Group insiders.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/12/daily-telegraph-mps-expenses-circulation

How about if our nation's newspapers began to dig up the truth about 9/11, torture, Iraq, etc.? Looks like the reaction would be very positive.

Er...oh yeah. They're controlled by the bad guys. So, how do they break out of that stranglehold?

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JackRiddler

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Mon May-18-09 09:04 AM
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1. How do they break out of that stranglehold?

They don't. Not until the capitalist-corporate ownership model is put to question generally.

Meanwhile, somehow, a different, sustainable, wide-coverage model for PAYING local and global reporters (an absolute necessity), providing journalism of all kinds, getting it out to the world and making enough money to kepp it going has yet to be achieved. Huffington Post does not replace 1500 newspapers with paid local reporters, right? It's a challenge, but it's also a wide open field.

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roody

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Mon May-18-09 09:12 AM
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2. They would rather wait for a bailout.

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Doremus

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Mon May-18-09 09:46 AM
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3. Pretty amazing that when you give the people ACTUAL NEWS

they want to read it, eh? :sarcasm:

The corporate-friendly tripe that fills many newspapers today isn't worth the effort to publish, let alone pay for. The Billionaire's Club have created their own self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Echo In Light

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Mon May-18-09 09:55 AM
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5. When given actual news, they decry it as "conspiracy theory."

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billyoc

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Mon May-18-09 09:53 AM
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4. They monopolized themselves right out of business.

I won't miss them.

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