Comments on: wsj outlines newspaper plight http://www.cheezhead.com/2008/03/31/newspapers-slipping-ad-dollars/ Insight and opinion from the world of employment. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:01:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: HRagitator http://www.cheezhead.com/2008/03/31/newspapers-slipping-ad-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-95411 HRagitator Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:42:13 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2008/03/31/newspapers-slipping-ad-dollars/#comment-95411 This is both sad and exciting to me. Sad because I can remember my father getting the paper and me excitedly pulling out the funny papers (which I now get delivered in my email), but exciting because we've opened up an entirely new channel for receiving information. It does make me wonder if twenty years from now my kids will be absorbing their news through some other technological contrivance and nostalgically remembering when they read Dilbert on Dad's laptop... This is both sad and exciting to me. Sad because I can remember my father getting the paper and me excitedly pulling out the funny papers (which I now get delivered in my email), but exciting because we’ve opened up an entirely new channel for receiving information.

It does make me wonder if twenty years from now my kids will be absorbing their news through some other technological contrivance and nostalgically remembering when they read Dilbert on Dad’s laptop…

]]> By: MikeInAZ http://www.cheezhead.com/2008/03/31/newspapers-slipping-ad-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-94781 MikeInAZ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:34:38 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2008/03/31/newspapers-slipping-ad-dollars/#comment-94781 Good counterpoint here: http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/03/of-fly-eyes-and.html On that blog, there's a chart: But when you see this chart, what's the first thing that you notice? Surprisingly, the industry is just ten percent off its historic highs (much like the stock market) and is still twice as big as it was twenty years ago. Good counterpoint here:
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/03/of-fly-eyes-and.html

On that blog, there’s a chart:
But when you see this chart, what’s the first thing that you notice? Surprisingly, the industry is just ten percent off its historic highs (much like the stock market) and is still twice as big as it was twenty years ago.

]]> By: Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com http://www.cheezhead.com/2008/03/31/newspapers-slipping-ad-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-94778 Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:10:00 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2008/03/31/newspapers-slipping-ad-dollars/#comment-94778 Perhaps the newspapers should spend more time reporting on the "subprint" rather than the "subprime" scandals. Incredible how these goliaths refused to understand that they were in the news delivery business, not the print newspaper business. Are they like ostriches with their heads stuck in the sand or dinosaurs which are huge, lumbering, and headed for extinction? My guess is that they're trying their hardest to fit into both groups. Perhaps the newspapers should spend more time reporting on the “subprint” rather than the “subprime” scandals. Incredible how these goliaths refused to understand that they were in the news delivery business, not the print newspaper business. Are they like ostriches with their heads stuck in the sand or dinosaurs which are huge, lumbering, and headed for extinction? My guess is that they’re trying their hardest to fit into both groups.

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