Gawker
Newspaper advertising dropped 7.9% last year—and that's before the recession really bit. Revenue from their websites, that sliver at the top in slightly paler red, could only slow the decline. [Data from the Newspaper Association of America. Chart by Gawker.]
Over The Precipice
2:46 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Nick Denton
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That graph makes me miss the Arizona landscape. P.S. I've never been to Arizona but I imagine it's like red mountains and stuff.
CHART BY INTERN MARY, GODDAMN IT!
If you turn that sideways you can see Nick Denton staring into the abyss.
In 2007 newspapers only made $41,000?! Things are really worse than I thought.
@KarenUhOh: Brilliant.
Wherein X = Year and Y = cost to print a single newspaper
Butt-Ugly Evidence.
@KarenUhOh: With his tongue out?
@KarenUhOh:
I'm seeing Nixon right there.
Pictured: Batman, wrapped in his cape, after getting bopped on one one of his ear things really hard, underneath a particularly brilliant Gotham sunset.
Holy Ear Things, Batman!
Red and "slightly paler red" as the two colors: brilliant.
This will all be resolved when they finally release digital paper.
Seen that Nick? Instead of fiber cotton or wood, it's fiber optics?
That kind of shiny stuff will bring back the advertisers.
Or course by then, there will be like 4 newspapers on the planet.
And they will all be called New Times.
@Otto-Reimer: ...and all four owned by Rupes.
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