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CulturalEngineer 2 years ago
"advertising means more people get news papers for less"
No it doesn't. the advertising model means fewer people get newspapers as advertisers dumb it down to the level of dogma and scams. American readers got fed up with it years ago.
Bigotry on Fox is one thing, actually reading through crap like that is not so easy, there is no info, nothing for the reader, in print it is a chore to read the right's boring corp love, it is just another ad..
corp praising sycophancy
is boring as hell.
marsCubed 2 years ago
I probably read more American newspapers than the average American.
The thing is, I see the punch-line coming in the American press. The style is also very formal, like a press release, there is no alternative view unless it is the right's agenda in the editorials.
It just quite literally is very boring, compared to something like the UK Guardian, which I don't think the Average American would be able to put down,
NEW ideas and info not Bill o' Riley 'informing' us of the lefts' opinion.
marsCubed 2 years ago
Are you on drugs or something? He is talking about availability, not quality of content. He is absolutely right that if you run ads in your paper you will be able to lower the fee you charge your readers because you're using advertisers to subsides the readers.
I mean the 99.9999% of the internet works that way. YOu use adverts to pay for the servers and bandwidth so that you can offer your website for free. This is why youtube is 100% free, had it been a pay-to-use service it wouldn't work
Slug99 2 years ago
Slug99, it all becomes exactly similar in a competitive system, good ideas get squeezed out by everybody else having exactly the same good idea until there is saturation and barrel scraping for the contract which makes or breaks an enterprise.
It becomes populism and tabloids, in truth that is the problem with the US press, and indeed with youtube.
It works much better if there is a balance. some sectors then being able to produce the kind of quality which requires risk. others must keep pace.
marsCubed 2 years ago
oops, risk and sometimes failure or not even being popular i mean. like supporting the royal Shakespear company is good for all of show biz.
marsCubed 2 years ago
Aside from some interesting columns now and then aren't newspapers kind of pointless? Why pay money to read yesterday's news? I'm not a big fan of the whole 24-7 news cycle but I'm not going to pay money to read things I already know.
zet168 2 years ago
zet- I think it used to be a matter of strengths. Next-day newspapers offer quality where cable news can offer expediency. Want to know as soon as possible that a tsunami hit Samoa so you can check in on relatives living there? Use cable news. Want to learn more about earthquakes and tsunamis, wait for the next day and read a well-written article.
The Internet blurs this line between the two, with newspapers getting faster publishing and multimedia capabilities.
Monchanger 2 years ago