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Cars & Coffee Killer
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Re: Same here!
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Join Date: May 2002
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The reason there is a decline in readership of print media/news or viewership of television media/news, has little to do with the stories presented on one or the other channel. With the advent of cable news, of which Turner/CNN in 1979, was the pioneer, particularly of 24-hour newscasts, CBS, NBC and ABC heard the death knolls way back then. The idea was information driven, not content driven.
Much in the same vein as cable news, the Internet is quickly killing print media. After all, why spend $650 a year for a subscription to the New York Times, when you can read it for free online. The advertisers have clued into this, which is why there are standard product advertisements on sites such as CNN online. Or, in the case of Earthlink, Yahoo and AOL, they buy direct feeds to AP and other news agencies. Of course, Business 101, will tell you that if you are a news service which depends on advertising dollars, but have no advertising dollars coming in, eventually, you will lose your shirt. So whether a paper succeeds is a matter of convenience and advertising. Engrained demographics (those older folks who've always read papers), can always be depended upon. Content though? People suddenly switching news sources because they're tired of politically-slanted stories? If anything, that wouldn't bode well for FOX as FOX slants toward The Right and Bush, which/who a majority of the American population distrusts.
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I don't get a paper at home just because I don't want to deal with it after I read it.
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