The plan to save American Newspapers

[TheTechnoa]

go green save paper.....anyways the internet covers everything that a newspaper does. 

[KIFulgore]

Oh yes, government intervention and spending... we certainly need more of that!

Funny, it seems the "death" of newspapers in favor of online journalism is something liberals and environmentalists should be all for. Think of the number of trees it would save.

Part of the Reduce, Re-use, Recycle program is *reducing* the amount of paper we use in the first place, right?

[kentube59]

Because the liberal agenda is already pushed in the schools. Makes perfect sense to use tax dollars to prop up the liberal rags. Why can't the Dems support  papers for supporting them?

Public television & radio are going the same direction.

[whoo689]

If people don't wanna support failed, shitty, old, stale newspapers, that's that! People don't wanna read them anymore and are looking to better online sources. So be it. People like Goodman and McChesney are such idiots. Michael McChesney's a professor, for god sakes! Yet he supports such a dumbass plan. Of course, he's also a leftist Marxist douche.

[whoo689]

why are the people who support failing businesses and industries so spineless?? COMPETE for god sakes! And don't be so whiny and wimpy that you can't handle your favorite companies going under. Lots of people do during recessions and bad times and whatnot. But their companies don't get bailouts, do they?

[whoo689]

Protectionism is stupid. Let failing companies fail. That's how a true free market should work. Once you get gov't involved, it just distorts everything and screws shit up. No bailouts, no exceptions. I'm getting tired of this bailout frenzy. We don't want a bailed out economy! We need economic growth and strength. Fuck the papers if they can't compete. We can do fine with online media. Who says online sources can't hold the powers that be accountable any less than shitty papers?

[IWantDemocracyNow]

But , Amy and Juan have argues that local papers do a great job of original journalism. And yes they are full of propaganda, but they also contain bits of original stuff. and that will now be lost.

I think they should just all go online, and get paid just as much.

[bebop54]

let 'em go down ...

[xxashyy]

And all this scare mongering from the liberals "It's the death of journalism as we know it" or "newspapers dying are a threat to democracy". All this is nonsense. First of all, we haven't had real democracy or journalism even when newspapers were thriving. Also to say that there will be no journalism if the papers go down is a stretch too.

[xxashyy]

After the internet, newspaper were going to die, they will die, and they must die it's all mainstream propaganda anyways. No real big loss.

[Azzaiel]

let them die, go online

[AntiShocker]

Insanity. Save them for what?

[cheddyrod]

Times change and we have to adapt. The internet has changed our world and we just can't turn the clock back. The internet also had a dramatic effect on the use of mail that is delivered by the post office. Supporting paper newspapers would be like supporting buggy whip manufacturers a century ago. Times change.