Falling Newspaper Circulation

[Ogami]

newsbusters.org has a great blog on what the MSM (Mainstream Media) needs to do to combat falling newspaper sales:

They Have It All Figured Out
Posted by Mithridate Ombud on June 21, 2006 - 01:12.
The Vice President of the Washington Post, Ben Bradlee, has the solution to the problem of MASSIVE declining newspaper circulation all figured out:

LEHRER: Do you think that the newspapers, faced with this decline in circulation, should reexamine what they're doing?
BRADLEE: They're examining, reexamining it. Boy, that's topic A. Every, every paper you go to, they've just had a meeting and they're discussing what to do about falling circulation. And there's one word is the answer.
LEHRER: What is it?
BRADLEE: Stories.
LEHRER: Stories?
BRADLEE: Good stories.
LEHRER: So, when you say stories, what stories are they not doing, kinds of stories that they're not doing?
BRADLEE: Well, I mean, they're just well written stories, some story that makes you, you know, say I'll be damned, that's a good story.

Actually, the average newspaper story already makes me say "I'll be damned" but probably not for the reason Ben is talking about. Here's a suggestion for all you newspaper VP's. Why don't you get rid of the bias, the America-hating columnists, the socialist editorials, and the reporters pushing a gay/lesbian/transgendered/illegal alien/pro-abortion/anti-God/anti-gun agenda?

Ever thought of that in one of your falling circulation meetings? No. Probably not.

http://newsbusters.org/node/6005

 

[Hambil]

Why don't they go back to hard hitting, multi-sourced, news stories that the TV and Internet news isn't covering, so Americans have a new source they can trust again? I mean, we've never had a more target rich environment.

 

[HeroicFool]

Hah, trust...

The media has lost anything resembling trust and that's a long, hard road back.

 

[Grandtheftcow]

BLAME TEH INTERWEBS!?!?!?!?