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Print Media Decline Continues

Locally, the latest casualty is Portland Tribune, which has announced that it's cutting back its print edition to once a week, beginning next month. Beginning January 1, it's also paywalling its site.

In a letter to readers, Pamplin Media Group President Mark Garber said reducing the number of publication days "will save us money, it's not so much a retreat, but a shift in how we can best cover local news."

The print edition will - for now - continue to be free of charge at outlets in the city of Portland; suburban editions will cost $1 per copy. In essence, they want suburbanites to pay a buck to peruse printed ads, as those now constitute roughly half of the "newspaper's" content. It's unclear as to how they've come to think that this approach will keep them in business:

Advertising revenue for U.S. newspapers peaked in 2000 at $49.4 billion, according to the Pew Research Center. Since then it's fallen 70 percent to an estimated $14.3 billion.

Garber claims that Tribune publications continue to receive strong advertising support from local businesses. Alrighty, then.

 

Door Meets Butt

The Newsweek “journalist” who penned an inaccurate report about President Donald Trump allegedly frittering away his Thanksgiving break doing nothing substantive has reportedly been terminated, though her firing has in turn sparked a new controversy. The original controversy erupted after Newsweek published a report by Jessica Kwong early Thanksgiving morning titled, “How Is Trump Spending Thanksgiving? Tweeting, Golfing And More.”

Some believe that "New-Speak" fired the wrong person:

The editor should be sacked. She is a grunt and they turned her into a scapegoat.

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 1, 2019

She was assigned the story the week before Thanksgiving, but how could she be expected to "report" on event before the event itself has even occurred? Seems as though the blame was unevenly applied at NewSpeak.

 

Whether Report

While putting together dinner this evening, KATU "news" came on the tube. They're really informative; tonight's nugget came from the geriatric "weatherman", who mentioned that a mix of rain and snow may "fall out of the sky" over the weekend. That's important to know, as most of us rubes would otherwise be staring at the ground while waiting for snow and rain to fall upward.

 

Conspiracies

Trump made a surprise stop at Walter Reed to get part of his annual checkup out of the way, and you know what that means:

Trump's trip to Walter Reed took place under unusual circumstances.

His two previous physical exams in office were announced ahead of time by the White House and noted on his daily public schedule.

 

The examination took "approximately four hours" and did not require any sedation or anesthesia, according to the President's physician, Dr. Sean Conley, who performed and supervised the exam. Last year's exam revealed that Trump has a common form of heart disease and high cholesterol.

 

Well obviously he's going to have to resign due to ill health! Not.

 

And in a bizarre headline, CNN reports that: Flat earth conspiracy spreads globally.

 

They didn't elaborate on how, exactly, the "conspiracy" can spread "globally" if the Earth is a flat disc, but that's par for CNN.

This week, the businessman attended the third annual Flat Earth International Conference, held at an Embassy Suites hotel in suburban Dallas, Texas. Organizers told CNN that about 600 others went too.

600+ doesn't seem especially global, but CNN paints the small percentage of the U.S. population who are afflicted with the derangement in ominous colors. All in all, it seems to me that Islamic jihadists are an actual danger, while folks who choose to believe that Earth is a stationary, flat disc don't constitute much of a threat.

 

 

Headline Writer Needed

Man critical after shot twice in Port Richmond

Well duh...of course he's critical; who would be happy after being shot twice?

 

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

He's dead, and House Democratics are pissed because they weren't told of the impending raid prior to its occurrence. But why would they get advance notice? Maybe because they've demonstrated their lack of trustworthiness time and time again?

It has now been confirmed that, among those who the White House and Pentagon chose not to brief were San Fran Nan and Bug-Eyed Adam Schiff. The Democrat toady news media and Twitter Perpetual Outrage Mob are naturally going berserk over this revelation, but the truth is that it is completely justified, and very likely prevented news of the operation being leaked to the New York Times and CNN in advance. Russian leader Vladimir Putin and leaders of the Syrian government could be trusted to hold the information confidential, but not the Democrat leaders in the United States congress.

You can’t be trusted. Trump not telling you about the operation saved American lives.

— Cannadog (@6849_ft) October 27, 2019

That about covers it.

 

Somehow, Missed By The MSM

After the suburban New Orleans youth team spent a memory-making day at the White House on Friday celebrating their win of the 2019 Little League World Series, the president took things to another level and gave them an unforgettable ride home with him on Air Force One.

Classy. Unlike the reaction from the rabid Left, of course. The kids will remember the trip for the rest of their lives.

 

be cautions

Really? Whatever happened to media editors?

 

4 - "Person" Ink Cartridge Theft Crew Caught

GOODYEAR, AZ — A four-person ink cartridge theft crew from California is allegedly responsible for over $200,000 worth of thefts in three states.

12 to 13% of the U.S. population, 80% of the crime. They must not have noticed the blimp.

The "persons" have been charged with organized retail theft.

Reportedly, they're from Victorville. More like "Loserville", I think.

 

Fish Wrappers

Express, the free newspaper published weekdays by The Washington Post for Metro riders and other commuters, will shut down on Thursday, ending 16 years of publication, the company said Wednesday. The publication was distributed free of charge each morning via old-fashioned newspaper hawkers (who numbered around 75) at Metro stations and via newspaper boxes. At its peak in 2007, it was distributed to around 190,000 people per day, said Dan Caccavaro, its executive editor. At that point, it was handsomely profitable, he said, and so popular that there was discussion of publishing an afternoon edition for the ride home.

But its circulation has declined in recent years, falling to around 130,000 copies a day this year. The drop reflected, in part, falling Metro ridership, which has been driven by a switch to home telework, riding-sharing services and other means of transportation, Caccavaro said.

Another factor: smartphones. This development will eliminate around two dozen jobs.

The ongoing shrinking of the old media industry and business model has resulted in the elimination of 33,000 newspaper jobs, and now, even big, new-age, digital outlets are facing pressure, according to a new analysis.

The Pew Fact Tank report is the latest portrayal of the difficulties faced in the news business and the reality that the explosion in online media has fallen far short of making up for the job losses in newspapers and magazines.

Nearly all Americans are “troubled” by the state of the media, according to a new study from boutique PR agency, Bospar, in collaboration with Propeller Insights.

The survey of 1,010 American adults found that more than 95% are troubled by the current state of media, with 53% citing “reports on fake news,” 49% citing “reporting gossip,” and 48% citing “lying spokespeople,” as the key causes.

Media are in deep trouble, and it's their own fault; they've been so immersed in their own bubbles that they simply haven't been paying attention to the public that they supposedly serve. And as interest wanes, so does ad revenue.