I didn't read a newspaper this morning...

I skim through the local daily. If I go to Borders I'll skim through the Union-Leader and Conc Monitor. If I go to the truck stop for choco-chip pancakes I'll finger the Globe. If I want *the* news, I'll log on to sportsjournalists.com.

 

The only time I ever read the paper anymore is during occasional visits to my mother. I feel guilty about it, but truthfully, there's just too much other stuff to be read.

Bought several during Katrina, but only for a wall where I've framed front pages dating to 1804.

 

What do people think of the WP TV show, featuring the blogger and writers? WIll it work?

I've given up on buying newspapers (long ago, in fact) and now read the sunday times online. not as fun, but for $5, i'd rather get a starbucks and put the recepit into a folder that I'll hand to my tax guy next year.

Anyone else do that? Just charge everything to the CC and give it to your tax guy?

 

Everyone wonders which paper will be the first to go 100 percent online.

I actually think the gutsier move may be becoming the first major newspaper to go 100 percent print. Make people pay for the information again and undermine this pervasive belief that the 18-24 demo has right now that it is their right to get free current events coverage.

 

Not gutsy - suicide. Everyone reads newspapers are their desk online all day. If your product isn't there, you become irrelevant.
Quit dreaming about 'giving the product away for free.' It's the way things are now. Gotta deal and move on and look to how you can take advantage of the web.

 

I actually think that's a trend because of the big online backlash against companies like AOL, etc., who badgered people continually when they tried to cancel. (represented pitch perfectly in the "Friends" episode when Chandler tried to quit the gym).

 

I'm all for online. But at some point, the powers that be have to turn it into a money maker, not just an altruistic venture to keep the public informed.

 

Call us when you get audited. We'll have a good chuckle.

 

Every type of printed product thrives except for newspapers. Only surrender will make defeat inevitable. For the umpteenth time, I say that papers need to go upscale.

 

Yeah. Ask the 160 Time Inc. employees whacked and Newsday employees in the closing bureaus.
I suppose if you mean celebrity smut rags, I guess you're right.
ESPN and SI are the only staff magazines (mags that don't exclusively hire freelance) that pay "upscale."