JESSE BROWN: Save the Newspaper!

[pendulousphallus]

Weren't for the newspaper I wouldn't be able to check my horoscope.

[songsterhiragana]

April 7 is National Snailpaper Day to celebrate print newspapers as snailpapers. Just do it. Pick up a print paper that day and read it. Then listen to my YouTube song on my link here.

[songsterhiragana]

Stop the Presses: "How to Save Newspapers" by Danny "Snailpaperman" Bloom on Youtube now too, and a good companion piece to this video here and also to Ted Rall's new video about newspapers, all three on YouTube now, go look under title Stop the Presses: "How to Save Newspapers"

[songsterhiragana]

My song title is "I Just can't live (without my daily snailpaper)" and it's cute...click on my userid to hear it, see it....

[songsterhiragana]

Jesse, my song getting 1000 hits now, slow climb up snailpaper ladder of fame...take a listen?

[blunz]

Maybe this doesn't merit a serious response. However, recent studies have shown that the vast majority of original news content on the web and in broadcast comes from newspapers.

We're not luddites trying to save print - the goal is to save news organizations (of any kind) that can pay journalists to do news that won't happen otherwise. That revenue is drying up, or just isn't there - even when it comes to digital organizations. We need a new business model. Bernie Lunzer, Pres. Newspaper Guild

[songsterhiragana]

Jesse, inspired by your professional video, i made an amateur vid here now re snailpapers ..it's on YOUTUBE now , going viral as we speaketh, er,

typeth, er readeth, er,screeneth. ENJOY

danny bloom...titled "I Just can't live without my daily snailpaper." got 20 hits so far, will never get 14,000 like you, but you are my teacher here, thanks sir.

[songsterhiragana]

Jesse and fans of Jesse and fans of newspaper and internets worldwide, my song about print newspapers, aka snailpaperes, is up soon on my youtube site, click on my name, titled "I Just Can't Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)". It's a humorous novelty song about ...well,...about the New York Times and the WaPo and the Globe and the Boulder Daily Camera and the old Her-Ex in LA.....give it a listen and enjoy the lyrics......written by a 1950s newspaper delivery boy still in love with print

[seansotheman]

Damn, these are good, Jesse! Look at the hits you're getting! Eat it, CBC!

[songsterhiragana]

Miami's a Herald, and D.C.'s a Post,

Boulder's a Camera and Walter Winchells's a ghost,

So let's save our papers, preserve them in print,

Call them snailpapers, let Drudge word mint!

O life is just one long newspaper caper,

I just can't live without my daily snailpaper,

"Crash blossoms" here atomic typos, there,

O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?

[songsterhiragana]

Now there's Alex Beam at the Boston Globe

He doesn't pull punches and he's really quite bold

The son of a diplomat, he's travelled -- literally -- the Globe!

The Globe is a snailpaper that'll never grow old

O life is just one long newspaper caper

I just can't live without my daily snailpaper

"Crash blossoms" here atomic typos there

O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?

In Chicago, there's Steinberg, Neil with a hat who never falls flat

[songsterhiragana]

Maybe you know him, that workhorse Bradlee,

Ben's the one sidelined Tricky Dick-ee,

O Woodward and Bernstein of Watergate fame,

There's nothing better than the newspaper game!

I think you know Bill Keller too,

He runs the Times and knows old from new -- (media that is),

Maureen Dowd to the left of him, Dave Brooks to the right,

If it's fit to print, it's in the New York Times tonight!

[songsterhiragana]

O life is just one long newspaper caper,

I just can't live without my daily snailpaper,

"Crash blossoms" here ...atomic typos there,

O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?

[songsterhiragana]

my new song mp3 novelty song now at fm website called "I Can't Live (without my snailpaper) .google it, soon to ne featured on NPR's All things considered snailpaper-song-novelty-song

[songsterhiragana]

Jonathan Stray, good point. I agree!

[JonathanStray]

"paper is not a priori better or worse than screens, just

different." For delivering news? Come on, driving paper around in trucks to get information to people is a terrible idea. Even if you really want to read on paper, printing out the articles at home makes much more sense.

[oldman986]

Your take on all the ads is made even more ironic with the advertisement shown at the bottom of the video.

[songsterhiragana]

Ask Andy Rooney of "60 Mintues" or Ben Bradlee at the Washington Post or Bill

Keller at the New York Times.

Let me conclude this love letter to print newspapers everywhere like

this: we must do all

we can to preserve the daily snailpaper, and if humor can help us get

over the hump and through the current malaise, then this newly-minted

coinage of snailpapers might serve some small purpose, even if as a

small historical footnote to the slow death of snailpapers.

[songsterhiragana]

That's why I recently coined this new word: "snailpapers". I love them. I

don't want to see them go.

So as you turn the pages of your snailpaper today, Jesse,, scanning from

story to story, clipping out articles

you like -- and underlining important sentences like this one -- remember

this: newspapers weren't born yestertday. They were born long ago.

Should we bury them so soon? It will be a sad day when the last print

newspaper leaves the shop.

[songsterhiragana]

I realize, of course, that we are witnessing a vast literary shift

right now from paper to screens, the

ramifications of which we cannot yet fathom. But think about this:

while paper is not a priori better or worse than screens, just

different -- and vivre la difference! -- what the future holds for

snailpaper readers is food for thought.

[songsterhiragana]

So let's be clear. I am using "snailpapers" as a warm loving term,

not in derision. So wipe that smirk off your face right now! I am not

dissing or dismissing paper newspapers. As far as I am concerned,

snailpapers make the world go around. me!

[songsterhiragana]

I want to be very clear from the outset about one thing: I am

using the term "snailpaper" as a term of endearment for the daily

print edition of our local newspapers. I am on the print edition's

side.

[songsterhiragana]

Maybe you are reading this commentary

in a snailpaper right now, too. Then again, you might be

screen-reading it on an Internet platform.

[songsterhiragana]

I want to introduce you today to the word "snailpapers." What's a

snailpaper, you ask? These are the paper newspapers we read every

day with news that is often 12 hours old by the time it reaches us.

Inside, the news is even older.

[songsterhiragana]

this should be linked also at romenesko's journo blog and Newspaper Death Watch by Paul Gillin and the Columbia Journalism Review. This is really funny and sad and true. Long live snailpapers!

[songsterhiragana]

this is a classic and should become a classic, great video sir. have you heard of my new coinage of the term snailpapers to stand for our print newspapers which arrive in the morning with news that is 12 hours late, Jesse? I have an oped coming out on this term next week in an Alaska snailpaper. I use the term as a term of endearment! Really. See my love letter to snailpapers at my "zippy1300" blog on the blogspot place..... you nailed it here sir. OUCH!

[Mothdust666]

Bwaaahahahahahah...

Vast ownage : D

[EpsilonVector]

LOL

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