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Not the dinosaurs they're made out to be?
(old news - 01:31PM Wednesday Jul 12 2006)
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Thirty-Nine of the nation's Forty top newspapers now use broadband video on their websites, reports Editor and Publisher. "Newspapers are perceived by many to be dinosaurs of another age, as their time-fixed publication schedules, top-down, staid cultures and finger-blackening products are seemingly out of date in the on-demand, blog-crazed, digital media-driven world we now live in," says an analyst for research firm Broadband Directions LLC. Despite this perception there is adaptation going on, according to a new report from the firm.

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Ohhh they still are

They are still the old papers just delivering the same content electronically...nothing more nothing less.
permalink · 2006-07-12 12:33:09 · Reply to this

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natural evolution

This is the natural evolution of media in general. Eventually all media will be available in physical (print, disc, etc.) and in electronic form on the internet.
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I dobut CNN will be in print...I think the way of media is to go electronic for most services (internet or video)...and ppaers are going to move to mostly online or portable via podcast and "read" to a person...audio newspapers.
permalink · 2006-07-12 12:58:03 · Reply to this
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Re: natural evolution

not really, there are many people out there who still prefer to just read a newspaper. Like me. I'm the biggest geek you'll ever know, i get nearly all of my content online, i'm hardcore, can code in 20 languages, build a system with a blindfold and one hand tied behind my back, yet i will STILL pick up a newspaper every once in a while.
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said by Eek2121 See Profile :

not really, there are many people out there who still prefer to just read a newspaper. Like me. I'm the biggest geek you'll ever know, i get nearly all of my content online, i'm hardcore, can code in 20 languages, build a system with a blindfold and one hand tied behind my back, yet i will STILL pick up a newspaper every once in a while.
Especially in the bathroom. Unless you are a real uber geek and take a laptop into the rest room with you.
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Re: natural evolution

I guess that's me.. I have an ethernet jack in EVERY room of the house in addition to telephone and tv.. and I do mean EVERY room.

Nothing like sitting in the whirlpool tub and watching a good tv show.. or being able to listen to music, or what ever.
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wireless
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Wired..

more reliable.
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If your wireless is so unreliable that you can't get internet service in your bathroom....you got problems.
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said by GOLFnSUN See Profile :

said by Eek2121 See Profile :

not really, there are many people out there who still prefer to just read a newspaper. Like me. I'm the biggest geek you'll ever know, i get nearly all of my content online, i'm hardcore, can code in 20 languages, build a system with a blindfold and one hand tied behind my back, yet i will STILL pick up a newspaper every once in a while.
Especially in the bathroom. Unless you are a real uber geek and take a laptop into the rest room with you.
lol! I actually thought about doing that once...
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said by GOLFnSUN See Profile :

said by Eek2121 See Profile :

not really, there are many people out there who still prefer to just read a newspaper. Like me. I'm the biggest geek you'll ever know, i get nearly all of my content online, i'm hardcore, can code in 20 languages, build a system with a blindfold and one hand tied behind my back, yet i will STILL pick up a newspaper every once in a while.
Especially in the bathroom. Unless you are a real uber geek and take a laptop into the rest room with you.
What? You mean not everyone does that? In this day of WIFI and tiny notebooks/pdas/mobiles, you mean to tell me there are still people who go to the toilet reading some hard print magazine or newspaper? No way! Get out! Surely you jest!
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Re: natural evolution

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said by GOLFnSUN See Profile :

said by Eek2121 See Profile :

not really, there are many people out there who still prefer to just read a newspaper. Like me. I'm the biggest geek you'll ever know, i get nearly all of my content online, i'm hardcore, can code in 20 languages, build a system with a blindfold and one hand tied behind my back, yet i will STILL pick up a newspaper every once in a while.
Especially in the bathroom. Unless you are a real uber geek and take a laptop into the rest room with you.
What? You mean not everyone does that? In this day of WIFI and tiny notebooks/pdas/mobiles, you mean to tell me there are still people who go to the toilet reading some hard print magazine or newspaper? No way! Get out! Surely you jest!
Well what hapens if you run out of toilet paper mid chore?
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 every once in a while does not pay the bills for these paper, less subcribers mean less ad revenue. How about this...consider how much time you spend with the various news media in a given day...Internet, TV, radio and print give me a percentage....I bet print is really low.
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 personaly i prefer a printed book or news paper over the likes of a ebook or newspaper. They all have one thing in common more difficult to read. Ive yet to see any pdf viewer that isnt slow at least part of the time to render and have a blurry effect to it. I would have to take a guess and say i can read a paperback novel in say 8 to 12 hours full novel as in 400 to 800 pages. If i had to read the same book in pdf format double that time easly.
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permalink · 2006-07-12 15:29:41 · Print · Reply to this

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What I dont like about them

you have to sign up on most of them just to view the stories
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that will be a thing of the past.
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Re: What I dont like about them

hope so cause chicago tribune still wont after three stories you must login
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I kinda like newspapers

I live in the high-speed, electronic digital world all day long. It is very pleasant to start the day with an "old-fashioned" (if you want) newspaper.
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Long Migration

While the trends are away from print, it is not very rapid. There is still room for traditional print in news delivery.

As long as advertisers want to use print, it will always survive in some form.

The news delivery "revolution" that was predicted during the bubble never occurred because everyone found out that there were only 2 news sources available from non-captives, Associated Press and Reuters. No matter what portal or news feed they used, it was all the same thing.

The value add the print press provides is in alternative and local reporting. NY Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, SF Examiner all have full time reporters on the beat providing alternative reports to the newswires. Don't want a newswire report from the White House? ok, go check out the beat reporter.

I am going to get better and more detailed coverage for example, of the Chicago train derailment in the Chicago Tribune than in the NY Times. But newswires may be adequate for the Mumbai train attack.

Fantasy Football nuts can research local team issues in the local rag much more than what a newswire can provide.

CNN was unique in its time because they went out and built a reporting corp from scratch. The peak of which was the Baghdad coverage during Desert Storm. They have been cost cutting ever since.

That captive reporting corp costs money to support and maintain. The web expects it now and for almost free. Something will have to give.
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What I don't like about traditional newspapers...

is that too many times I see on my morning train commute people coming in with their morning newspaper, read one, maybe two articles and then just throw it all into the trash bin. Sometimes they just go straight for the sports section and throw everything else. What a waste of resources, all for just one article.
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I think the title says it all.

Newspaper subscriptions have been declining slowly since the internet has caught on. Why spend money on a paper when you can read about it for free on the computer. Newspapers have got to come up with something else they can provide because what they are doing now isn't doing enough.
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permalink · 2006-07-12 15:00:24 · Reply to this
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Newspapers are still good....

A lot of people don't have computers and they still read the newspaper. Or they have dial-up and picking up a paper and drinking coffee in the morning is a lot more convenient than dialing into AOL for something as simple as the morning news. I don't see newspapers going anywhere at least during the first half of this century.

Not everybody has a laptop/PDA to take with them into the bathroom. A big problem with geeks is they think everybody is as sophisticated and as high tech as them. I used to be this way until I started working retail. Then I rapidly learned I was in the minority. Its sad, but true.
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yea

anyone saying newspapers are going nowhere quick either dont take mass transit systems to work, or never leave their homes. I see people everyday holding their paper in one hand and a coffee in the other. Round here, it wouldnt be to smart opening ya laptop on the Metro. Less you WANNA be followed off the train. haha. My favorite paper is a spinoff/summation of the Washington Post called "Express". Shits tight and makes the morning commute that much quicker.
permalink · 2006-07-12 18:17:06 · Reply to this
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Perhaps that's the answer to one part of the problem. There is a little more time to press, than the hurried "I want it now" on the Internet. Maybe this makes for more creative journalism?

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