More than 2,000 US newspapers
have closed in past 15 years
24/7 Wall Street,
by
Douglas A. McIntyre
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
7/23/2019 11:53:06 AM
The newspaper industry has continued its relentless downward spiral, which started with the advent of the internet and accelerated during the Great Recession. The pace of the decline has not slowed. New research shows that over 2,000 newspapers have closed since 2004, a staggering figure given that the industry was once among the largest employers in America. Penny Abernathy, the Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Media and Journalism, is widely considered the preeminent authority on the number of newspapers in the United States. That is not
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 7/23/2019 11:57:08 AM (No. 131610)
Really! 2000 newspapers, closed!
I hadn't noticed.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ming 7/23/2019 12:07:02 PM (No. 131622)
Like the old punchline, I think 2000 is a good start.
And don't give me that BS line that democracy needs a free press. You're right. Find me one and I'll start to take notice. What we have now is just the propaganda wing of the DNC.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ben Around 7/23/2019 12:09:10 PM (No. 131626)
Good riddance.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
winmag 7/23/2019 12:13:17 PM (No. 131632)
When is the failed NY Times going to disappear from view?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/23/2019 12:14:57 PM (No. 131635)
Save a tree!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
toddh 7/23/2019 12:17:54 PM (No. 131638)
They could learn to code.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
web 7/23/2019 12:28:36 PM (No. 131659)
It isn't just the Internet that killed print newspapers. I worked for a regional paper in the 1990s that was the only conservative, rational voice in the area. After the campaign of environ-mentalists lying, suing, and political agitation, they succeeded in shutting down logging throughout the West. The cost of newsprint went up to the point we could no longer afford it. I don't know how all the liberal rags that remain in the area keep in business.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/23/2019 12:40:38 PM (No. 131683)
People won't read what they can't trust.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Tennman 7/23/2019 12:56:38 PM (No. 131701)
Numerous reasons they fold and almost all are weeklies. Old guard dies off, population shift, drop in circulation and/or advertising. People not reading anymore since, as weeklies, the news is already out there. Mergers, etc
Am really surprised there were still that many around.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
golden 7/23/2019 12:57:11 PM (No. 131702)
The things the US press does would make Pravda blush.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 7/23/2019 1:04:06 PM (No. 131709)
Murdered by their leftist owners, mostly. It turns out people will not pay for unending leftist propaganda.
I subscribed to the KC Star for almost 30 years until it became SO blatant that there was no longer any point in even reading any of their stories. I know dozens of other conservatives who also stopped supporting this extreme leftist rag. I am sure the story is the same across the country.
Add in the fact that millenials don't read anything that isn't on their phone.....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 7/23/2019 1:47:22 PM (No. 131742)
About ten years ago, I worked at a newspaper in Vermont selling classified ads. When I started, there were about 30 people in four rooms selling classifieds, business and employment ads. Four years later, when I left, they were down to five or six people doing all ads and even those employees were going to be let go soon. The paper had let most of its staff go and instead of publishing on a daily basis, they were publishing on Thursdays, Fridays and weekends only.
When I left last year, ths entire paper had moved to a much smaller suite of offices in a different building and the classified ads were being sold out of a company in Iowa. However, they did this to themselves by forgetting about the Conservative customers and being a mouthpiece for the leftists in the state. As an employee, I was offered a complimentary subscription which I turned down, since I didn't have a birdcage to be lined.
I don't weep for these papers. They made their beds, now they must lie in them.
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The job of a free press is to shine the light on government, from the smallest town to DC. That is what the First Amendment intended. The job of a free press is certainly not to be cheerleaders for libs, left-wing loons, Dems or ruling elitists.
We do not have a free press in this country. We have very few practicing journalists now. Self-proclaimed journalists are most often propagandists for the Democrat party, certainly at the big-city papers---- they don't get promoted unless they toe the party line.
Be that as it may, I plan to be the last subscriber to a print-edition newspaper if it comes to that. The puzzles and comics are an important part of my morning routine. And after that, I often give close attention to the local news.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 7/23/2019 2:00:36 PM (No. 131747)
"News"papers have the same problem the dems do, no one is interested in the baloney they are trying to sell. Certainly no one wants to pay them for it. Now they are Propagandapapers.
The thing is, the local information is available out there, at web sites or blogs or Facebook if you know where to look. It's not clear that someone could make a business of aggregating and printing it. Someone might aggregate it as an online meeting room but not make any money at it. Maybe that is a function that communities may want to construct for the town. Many towns have a website. It could be attached to that. It would cost the town some money. Would it be worth it? That's an individual town choice.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
raspberry 7/23/2019 2:01:52 PM (No. 131748)
I would like to see the preeminently liberal Washington Post disappear. I dropped it years ago when I could no longer tolerate even the stories I wanted to read. On one Father's Day they had four stories about fathers--all homosexual. There was not one normal traditional family story to be printed. A fifth story in the book review section had a gay father. I did not want my wife and daughters exposed to this crap nor could I tolerate it any longer. I have two degrees in journalism so I recognize what journalism has now become and why papers have failed as Americans no longer want to read them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
GO3 7/23/2019 2:10:33 PM (No. 131756)
The local TV stations have taken up the leftist banner when the newspapers ran out of business. Local TV stations have about five minutes each for local news, sports and weather. The rest is fed by their parent big brother news organization. They really could fill the time with local news, but they choose not to, or are coerced by the bigs to run national level propaganda pieces.
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I cannot remember the last newspaper we subscribed to. I clearly recall buying TWO papers when I was a young strap-hanger in Chicago. One in the morning, one at night. Back in the olden days my boy, the newspaper vendor at the L station would catch you on the way to the train, quickly fold a paper in 3's, slap it under your arm as you walked past him and collected your money with the other hand. It was a dance!!
That was when Chicago had 3 or 4 major newspapers plus numerous "neighborhood" papers. Why, even San Francisco and Seattle had 2 papers. But it's got to be 20 years since we actually paid money for a subscription.
Until last week. We subscribed to the Epoch Times. I gotta admit, I'm impressed...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 7/23/2019 3:25:23 PM (No. 131814)
The Seattle Times is the largest newspaper in the state. It's a family-owned newspaper. A few months ago, they switched from comments to most all their stories to hardly allowing any comments at all. If the story is from an out of town newspaper, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, etc. or syndicated columnist, they don't allow comments. If it's a local story that's at all controversial no comments allowed. They have zero conservative reporters or any conservative syndicated columnist, in effect, Conservative voices are not allowed or heard.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/23/2019 4:47:12 PM (No. 131875)
And, nobody gives a flip.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
watashiyo 7/23/2019 4:54:49 PM (No. 131881)
That's it?!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
cactus 7/23/2019 6:43:00 PM (No. 131957)
The Tucson, AZ newspaper recently started having the paper printed in Phoenix. As a result, anything that happens or games that finish later are not included in the morning paper. By the time it gets here, I have read most of the news and sports on the internet. Just about all columnists and writers are liberals. Most of the letters are from liberals. The last time I renewed it was $600 for the year. I will not renew again. Oh yeah, you can renew and get it on your computer for $ 20 a month. Not sure even that's worth it.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Smart11344 7/24/2019 2:45:53 PM (No. 132650)
2,000? Hey folks, this is only the beginning. Radio and TV will be dwindling in numbers soon, too. There alredy quite a few that have signed off.
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They warn about 'news deserts'. Too bad most papers became politically correct jibberish that mostly reprinted AP stories and failed to cover any local news that didn't fit the liberal narrative.