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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

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    Image of raincoaster 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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    Image of lobstr 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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    Image of Foster Kamer 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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    Image of skahammer 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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    Image of Glib and Bitchy Glib and Bitchy
    11/22/09

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

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

    @Lysergic Asset: It is necessary to burn the forests in order to save them.
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    Edited by Swifter at 11/22/09 5:37 PM Swifter was starred Swifter was unstarred
    Image of Tremonius 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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    Image of Lysergic Asset 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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    Image of snugbug 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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    Image of Joe Mitchell's Secret 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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    Image of BunnySkull 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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    Image of MissNormaDesmond 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?
     Reply
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle 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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    Image of senatormayer 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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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie 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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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/20/09

    In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
    Right, because cobras have hoods, just like European wieners.
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    Image of manchops 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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    Image of Molly Friedman 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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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/18/09

    In reply to Tattle-Tale Newspaper Costs Vulgar Commenter His Job
    Wait...was he Vietnamese?
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    Image of lionel-mandrake 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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