The World's First Musical Obit for Newspapers

The snailpaper song by DANNY BLOOM: http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_bloom27_03-27-10_7MHPJL4... - ''snailpapers'' is used here as ''a term of endearment'' for print newspapers everywhere. Enjoy. In this Digital Age, print newspapers and online news sites can co-exist well together on very friendly terms, and they will. Long live our daily snailpapers!

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[songsterhiragana]

''Even though I am no longer affiliated with a newspaper these days, I

still regularly punish myself by pondering what, if anything, can be

done to save a dying industry I gave my professional life to.......This is depressing work, .....but if newspapers are willing to knock off the panic, and take a

couple of deep breaths, maybe I have finally come up with a way to be

of some help here........Remind your readers, and would-be readers, that you work for them."

[songsterhiragana]

''The real value is if that

newspaper delivered to their doorstep is relevant to that reader's

life.''

Doug Clawson writes: ".....Therefore, the local newspaper needs to be stuffed with local news and happenings. And

I mean real local. It needs to be about the reader, for the reader.

Make advocacy journalism your bailiwick."...and.....from :Read All About It! How Newspapers Can Survive!" google the headline

[songsterhiragana]

Hi Dan:.......OK, that's really, really bad! ....Actually it's great. .....Of course you need an old print guy like me to really appreciate it......I've put it in my files.,,,,,,Thanks for sending, and reaching out..... -- Doug Clawson

[songsterhiragana]

Edward H Tenner on snailpapers: "The ''snailpaper'' is a hidden literary miracle. "

[songsterhiragana]

A profesor says: "Speaking of snailpapers, Dan, .....someone who had retyped a single print issue of the New York Times on an ordinary, slow date, and discovered it to be a 900-page book of every kind of human drama. The ''snailpaper'' is a hidden literary miracle.

[songsterhiragana]

Every Monday, DNAinfo contributing editor Sree Sreenivasan shares his

observations about the changing media landscape.

[MrBikolang]

2344

[MrDanbloom]

2239 after CSm Rueters hits....

[MrDanbloom]

2219 hits as of July 15

[MrDanbloom]

You gotta admit: newspapers were once a glorious and important part of American culture, from the Hollywood Reporter to the Village Voice. But those days are almost over now, and they're all fast becoming snailpapers, or worse!

By the way, I sent the video link to Carl Bernstein in New York and he wrote back in internet time: "Nice voice, and so very very true..."

Enjoy the song! It's a trip down Memory Lane...

[MrDanbloom]

You've heard that print newspaper are dying, of course, and being overtaken by this thing called 24-hour cable television news and the online reality of Twitter and Facebook. Now here's ''the world's first musical obituary for newspapers,'' as former Washington Star gossip columnist Diana McClellan calls it

[MrDanbloom]

The Wrap in Hollywood posts a brief post about this song today titled: ''A Musical Obituary to My Daily Snailpaper''................

Published: July 13, 2011 @ 3:07 pm

[MrDanbloom]

This rather shameless headline from the Springfield Republican in Massachusetts is not a crash blossom, but interesting nonetheless for the way it went viral so quickly last week:"One-armed man arrested for unarmed robbery"

David Moye at AOL news dishes the dirt.

[MrDanbloom]

''Video would be stronger with better visuals than the lyrics (some newspaper headlines, front pages, personalities, etc.). ''' -- SB says

[MrDanbloom]

''Video would be stronger with better visuals than the lyrics (some newspaper headlines, front pages, personalities, etc.). ''' -- SB says

[MrDanbloom]

cute