DISQUS

paulbot5 · 10 months ago

Who needs a newspaper when you have internet, better source of info to

naschkatzehussein · 10 months ago

People need jobs, and there are still millions out there without the Internet. Is the Seattle paper one of those owned by The Chicago Tribune's Sam Zell?

Bush Bites · 10 months ago

Doesn't look like it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribune_Company

Actually, it looks like the Trib empire is mostly television stations.

Bush Bites · 10 months ago

A newspaper that hasn't made money in 8 years?

Somebody should call Sam Zell.

He'll jump at it.

Indigo · 10 months ago

L.O.L. !

Daniel S · 10 months ago

People probably not buying the paper because it could be biased and doesn't represent what the reader wants to read.

Steve_in_CNJ · 10 months ago

i was hoping it was the seattle times going under. they published that lying hit job against darcy burner in october. she eventually lost by a handful of votes.

Bush Bites · 10 months ago

Looks like both papers endorsed Reichard, tho.

lynchie · 10 months ago

slightly OT: Great video of one of George Carlin's rants on the state of America.

Rest in peace George.

http://www.shoutfile.com/watch/a42Hu9Hr/Wake-Up...

Bush Bites · 10 months ago

It looks like it's a case of the conglomerate getting beat by the local independent.

Locally owned and operated newspapers are all but obsolete in the contemporary media market -- even in major cities such as Los Angeles, Houston, and Miami, whose wealth and sophistication suggest that they could support one. "Today," says Frank Blethen, the outspoken publisher whose family has run the Seattle Times for five generations and is currently battling the Hearst Corporation, a conglomerate on a par with Tribune, for control of the Seattle market, "only about 250 of the nation's 1500 newspapers are independently owned and operated," and only a portion of these are locally managed. Speaking at the University of Washington's Democracy Fest just before the 2004 election, Blethen declared that "frighteningly, our nation's newspapers and media are now mostly controlled by a small group of corporations whose only value is more wealth and unbridled control."

Bush Bites · 10 months ago

According to The Vanishing Newspaper, by journalism professor Philip Meyer, the industry peaked early in 1920s, when the average household read 1.3 newspapers a day. By 2001, almost one out of every two households no longer read a newspaper.

To look at it another way, four in 10 Americans indicate they read a newspaper yesterday, compared to a decade ago, when one out of every two Americans said they did on a typical day, according to the Pew Reseach Center.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar...

Bush Bites · 10 months ago

I wouldn't be shocked to see Hearst out of the newspaper business before long.

Their only major papers left are the SF Chronicle and a San Antonio paper.

http://www.cjr.org/resources/?c=hearst

Bush Bites · 10 months ago

Oh, just noticed, they have a Houston paper too.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 10 months ago

A lady told me she'd heard the New York Times could go out of business by summer. She said she planned to leave America when that happens. Do you suppose there's any truth to her report that the NY Times could fold???

grandma · 10 months ago

OT

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sources close to Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, tell CNN he will announce Monday he is retiring from the Senate.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/11...

tangodaddy · 10 months ago

Most of these papers would not go under if they just reported the news Instead they carry water not what they were intended to do!

Indigo · 10 months ago

It's getting to be like the days when black and white television disappeared. At first it was puzzling, then we went out and bought a color-capable television, then favorite programs went off the air, then new programs in original color showed up, and then, without quite noticing when it happened, all the programs were in color. First the newspapers have started to be on line, then the ads on line starting showing up, and now we know how to navigate around the advertising, and now the print paper is phasing out. Things change. Okay.

pdxprobert · 10 months ago

Yup, I remember the NBC Peacock to let you know this program was in color... we didn't get a color TV until 1970... I think most of them starting coming out around 1961 or 1962...I remember thinking only the rich people could afford a color TV... or at least thats what my mom implied... she also said only rich people could afford a subscription to National Geographic too... but we ate well... always had food on the table... I was amazed to hear people my age speak of their youth and how they didn't always have enough food to eat...

I remember the first time I saw the colorized version of the Wizard of Oz...

These days, remembering the past seems more comforting than anticipating the future.. I don't know a time in my life that the future seemed so foreign, so unknown and unpredictable, as it does now... I suspect many people feel this way...

Indigo · 10 months ago

It's start over time.  There isn't much we can do about it.  All the pent up anger of conservatives everywhere seems to have formed into this giant emotional tsunami that just keeps sweeping around the globe.  First bombings, then war, then collapse.  I feel like we should all be huddled in ruins, dressed in tatters with scarves wrapped around our heads like World War I refugees.  Rebuilding comes later, right now, we're all shell-shocked from the extent of the devestation.  The peppy ones who're all for jumping up and setting everything to rights again are the most shell-shocked of all.  They don't realize it's all gone.  Not yet, they don't.

caphillprof · 10 months ago

It isn't the technology change but the obsolescence of their voice. The run up to the Iraq war was the final straw.

Klayton · 10 months ago

This is sad, and if the P-I doesn't sell, that will leave us as a one-paper town. And that one paper isn't all that great. The Seattle Times has an anti-gay, anti-Democrat, and pro-business bias. It's a good thing we live in the Internet age and aren't limited to the local paper for information.