As newspaper spending falls, some companies face end

Hopefully, the New York Times and Washington Post will follow those others into bankruptcy and extinction!

The new slogan for the New York Times should be - "All OUR views that's s**t to print!"

I hope the New York Times follows in it path. I hate liberal people. Their brains are missing and the conservatives have enough of the Liberals and the left wing nut jobs. The left wing even tries to hurt their own causes

I seriously believe that Liberalism is a Mental Disorder. Or the Water or Wine Liberals Drink is Laced with Lead. They should be tested for Lead and Mercury Levels since this thinking reminds me of the Roman Empire Demise. I used to read everything I could get my hands on, subscribed to 4 or 5 papers growing up. Now, 3 or 4 times a week I will pick up 2 papers here in San Diego just to reveiw the local stuff. Too bad the ink in the fingers and fun of the Newspaper has gone by the way of Leave It To Beaver......It's Over, get over it and think for yourself....

I quit the LA Times because it was too liberal. I just wanted the facts, not their slant on them. Also, their grammar and spelling were terrible.

Anyone who wonders why newspapers are going under, only have to read the blob, I mean blog, of beltwaybob. He tells it all, no facts, no proof, nothing. Just the usual Bush bash, that all Libs indulge in. Fellow Conservatives, Bush may have let us down, but the two Dems running for the highest office are real jokes. Neither of them should be allowed to take this office. Tell them both in November just what we think of 1) A congenital liar, and 2) A black racist.

What am I going to use to line my birdcage??

I believe that the newspapers have seen their better days. The modern age of information leads many of us to gather the news from the internet.
I only purchase the small town newspapers for business and home addresses. I advertise in the local paper and usually get good results in a profile advertisement they offer to the business community. I never buy the state or regional newspapers.

No self-respecting fish would be caught dead in the New York Times!

Remember: one lie can cause more deaths than any bomb.

I hate to disappoint you all but the demise of daily newspaper readership has nothing to do with the political stance those papers take. It has almost entirely to do with news - especially national news - being so readily available from other sources, specifically the Internet and cable TV. As the population ages and those who don't use the Internet for news die off, readership will drop even more. As readeship drops, advertising drops. When the two declines reach a critical mass, papers die. It's as simple as that.

That said, print journalism is not dead, just evolving. After years of working for a city daily that is in serious decline, I have been for the last four years the editor and lead writer of a free small town weekly - one of a small chain of four such weeklies in central Michigan. Our papers are thriving. Advertising was up last year over the previous year. Things are looking so good, we are in the process of starting up a fifth paper in an adjoining town. The secret? We give people something they can't get on the Web or even on TV - news that actually effects peoples' lives, such as local and community news about school boards, town councils, county government, business development, local sports, etc. I am convinced that the newspapers that survive are the ones that become more local instead of more diversified.

Hi Beltway Greg! You said it right. Too bad I am too old (and married) or I would ask you for a date too!

Newspapers are passe media with cable news and webnews in the forefront. However, I enjoy readubg them when eating lunch.