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iantenna
09/25/09

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good riddance i say, save for the lost jobs. the chronicle has been a shitstain of a paper for years, and an oddly conservative one to boot, considering its market.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
09/25/09

@iantenna: true. sad about the jobs. but the paper sucked yea verily for decades

what it produced was not quite journalism
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TabithaIapetus
09/25/09

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I notice that sign is not on... So is California closed now?
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Conchie Birdie
09/25/09

@TabithaIapetus: Furlough Friday, baby, it ain't just for the city hall workers anymore.
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BlinkyMcChuck
03/22/09

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I hope it works. It's a great paper and a nonprofit would actually be able to shake loose of what binds so many other media sources, or at least, that's what I'd hope for.
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jobsworth
03/22/09

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What will happen if papers like and the NY Times can't afford to keep going? Will major cities then go without a daily newspaper?
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Not The Red Baron
03/22/09

@jobsworth: Do they actually need them? It's an honest question: I personally still like to buy the Daily Telegraph here in the UK, despite its drastic decline in journalistic standards, because I like to attempt the crossword then use it for firelighting, and because it says something about my personal politics when I carry it into the pub or leave it on my coffee table. But are there any serious arguments for print media over online alternatives that are relevant in the modern world?
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Tremonius
03/22/09

@Not The Red Baron: No. But, look, 90% of the argument is just habit. Why spend extravagant sums stamping out a harmless herb and imprisoning those who smoke it if we encourage tobacco which kills four million and more annually? Habit. Why continue, for that matter, a drug war which has consumed billions and killed thousands to maintain or raise the street price of coke? If you calculate factors behind wars, pollution, and golf, you end up with, it's the way it's always been done. That's what maintains newsprint.
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scarcat
03/21/09

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Long ago and far away (say the late Eighties ?) the Chronicle ended the practice of ending every Front page story on the Back page of the first section. That Cafe friendly

format, Mr. Caen, Mr. Deloplane et. al and a reasonable "Anti-Mr. Sharon Stone" truthful style of Journalism made the Chron an exceptional daily paper. I miss the days when I trusted the Media.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
03/22/09

@scarcat: so long ago and so far away, but a dream goes on forever

this is awesome sauce
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Tremonius
03/22/09

@scarcat: As I recall, Caen and McCabe were one-page wonders. I think Caen also had as a page partner a famous womens' underwear ad, upon which he commented sometimes, but this is only memory. I think the placement of the columns was most likely contractual.

Sometime somewhere there will be a 14th Amendment spiel about print newspapers. The brief will be irrefutable. "Look, the shlubs out in the neighborhoods do not know what's good for them, so it's up to state and federal agencies to provide it by taking their tax dollars and spending it on elevated culture. We do that for opra, ballet, symphonies, and public radio and teevee, so why not newsprint?"
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Weegee's bored
03/21/09

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I say create the country's first gay daily.
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Kid Twist
03/21/09

@Weegee's bored: We already have one. It's called The New York Times.
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belltolls
03/11/09

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I would buy it at the price of "What I have in the change jar" and then make it really, really, small...like 20 or 30 pages tops because the problem with newspapers is not the papery-ness but the fact that there is so much in them that is not news. I might even pay for a small, well done local paper if the crap had been scooped out. Oh, it must have a "police blotter" because that is the best part of any paper.
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SultanaEleusis
03/10/09

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I think non-profit is when you break even, and when you lose tons of money it's called capitalism.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
03/11/09

@SultanaEleusis: when you lose tons of money AND pay yourself hundreds of millions AND get the government to bail out your ass, now that's capitalism!
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
03/10/09

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It takes REAL talent to consistently loose $50 million a year.
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