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Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
Rumors: Staff Shuffles at New York Post, Sports Illustrated
Fox News Anchor Gets Real Job With The Onion
Tattle-Tale Newspaper Costs Vulgar Commenter His Job
Reality Check: 80% Won't Pay for Online Content (And the Other 20% Are Probably Lying)
Documentary to Expose Twittering, Typing, Lunch Habits of NYT Media Reporters
Moonie Newspaper Editor Shockingly Forced to Attend Moonie Wedding
Cops Raid the New York Times Printing Press

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raincoaster
11/22/09

In reply to Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
Canada perfected this little scheme back when the National Post was founded and trying to inflate its numbers.
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lobstr
11/22/09

In reply to Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
I went to UNLV right at the ending cusp of LV's glory days (More classic hotels on the Strip than douchebag attractors, Tarkanian was still coaching, slots still dropped coins etc) and even in 1993, with under a million residents, LV still was a two-newspaper town.

In fact I still have my mint-condition copies of the LV Sun's farewell to the Dunes Hotel special issue .. though, little did the Sun know they were about to implode themselves :[] .. good times though.
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Foster Kamer
01:37 AM

@lobstr: I forgot! Yes! You're a UNLV grad. For the record, the Sun's still alive, it's just a fold-out in the RJ, now. A 20something year-old reporter at the Sun won the Pulitzer earlier this year for Public Service reporting on construction project deaths. Must've chapped some old asses at the RJ fairly well.
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skahammer
11/22/09

In reply to Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
I would like a paper machete hat, please.

And then, look the hell out.
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Glib and Bitchy
11/22/09

@skahammer: Ouch. Paper cut!
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Sergio Hernandez
11/22/09

@skahammer: Ha, beat me to it.
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Lysergic Asset
11/22/09

In reply to Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
If the internet had been set up originally on a per-fee basis, maybe there wouldn't be resistance to the idea of internet-only news. "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" comes to mind.

I was hoping for the death of print media if only to save the forests.
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Swifter
11/22/09

@Lysergic Asset: It is necessary to burn the forests in order to save them.
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Tremonius
11/22/09

@Lysergic Asset: Compuserve, payable by the minute. Something called The Source offered all sorts of university (East Mississippi Barbers', I think) research opportunity at $7 per minute. Other deep resources offered a cover charge to the Inner Sanctum. This was connectivity in the late 80s, when I started. Even the local "tree board," the BBS which organized chatter so it went on forever like an organization chart, began charging.

Then somebody said, hey, everybody's still listening to radio and watching teevee. What's their business plan again?
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Lysergic Asset
11/22/09

@Tremonius: Damned if they do, fucked if they don't... I wonder who's turning a profit on web news.

#tips
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snugbug
11/20/09

In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
Did anyone else get the "Pimmel über Berlin" (Penis over Berlin) pun? It riffs on "Der Himmel über Berlin" (The Heaven over Berlin) title of that famous Wim Wenders film aka Wings of Desire.

No? Just me? OK, I'm a dork.
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Joe Mitchell's Secret
11/20/09

In reply to The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
What amazes me; not one sentence about the writing. Snappy? Ponderous? Meh?
@Zirinsky
Congrats, you get the blue-ribbon today.
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BunnySkull
11/20/09

In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
Now why doesn't the NYT do a Murdoch mural like that on the side of their building? These German are taking us to school on how a real editorial feud is handled.
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MissNormaDesmond
11/20/09

In reply to The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
So, do you think Gawker is a better website now than it was the day it launched?
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
11/20/09

In reply to The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
Well, in the old days before child labor laws, urchins were their distribution system, so maybe it's 2 steps forward, 3 back
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senatormayer
11/20/09

In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
That's what trying to conquer the world does to a country. You wind up with cocks on the sides of buildings.
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Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
11/20/09

In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
Also, read between the lines on the GMA item: The staffers are concerned about the show's basketball team as much as anything else.
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Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
11/20/09

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Right, because cobras have hoods, just like European wieners.
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manchops
11/19/09

In reply to Rumors: Staff Shuffles at New York Post, Sports Illustrated
You wanna save Sports Illustrated? GET RID OF TERRY MCDONNELL. The guy sat at Esquire watching circulation fall through the floor, his only real talent being to spend ungodly sums of money on basically nothing and for that he ends up being promoted to SI? I swear to god, the best way to save every magazine out there? Bag the over-paid, over-spending captian of the ship and keep everyone else's jobs.
Tossing McDonnell is perhaps the best example of how this would save the industry.
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Molly Friedman
11/19/09

@manchops: Terry actually "sat at Esquire" doing just the opposite: publishing dozens of literary icons, many of whom are now in the canon thanks in part to Terry's faith in them. Talese, Mailer, McInerney, Salinger, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, Cormac McCarthy...are you kidding me?

Under Terry's editorship, Esquire was an ASME finalist SEVEN times. Just try comparing Esquire's (well-documented recently by DiGiacomo in VF) pathetic fiction to the work Terry accomplished back then.

@Immaculate:
1) Jann promoted Terry because he earned that ME position.
2) "Personal habits"? You're actually chastising someone who worked at Rolling Stone under Wenner in the early 80s for having fun?
3) Jann and Terry, to this day, are close friends. If Terry stole anything from Jann, it was a series of classic Hunter S. Thompson anecdotes due to the fact that HST adored Terry and wasn't so fond of Jann.
4) Nick writes his own novels. Terry is (and will proudly admit it) an editor, not a writer. And an effing legendary one, who works seven days a week, has completely revived si.com (who do you think oversaw the CNN partnership?), and most importantly, a gentleman.

Jealousy doesn't justify idiotic, ignorant bashing of someone you clearly know nothing about.
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raincoaster
11/18/09

In reply to Tattle-Tale Newspaper Costs Vulgar Commenter His Job
Wait...was he Vietnamese?
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lionel-mandrake
11/18/09

In reply to Fox News Anchor Gets Real Job With The Onion
Pat Kiernan is a god among men. More Pat Kiernan news please.
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