Comments on: A La Carte Print Media

By: Flasshe

Flasshe — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:06:46 +0000

Google classifieds? What about Craigslist?

I think newspapers will be around longer than magazines, although the one great thing about magazines is they make good toilet reading. I’ve been dropping my magazine subscriptions like a bad coke habit. There’s pretty much nothing in a magazine that you can’t find online faster (and timelier).

There’s no real suitable replacement for newspapers yet though, and I think it will still be awhile before they come up with one. But certainly subscription revenue is going to continue to decline.

By: DJSmallberries

DJSmallberries — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:06:00 +0000

Let’s face it, newspapers are pretty much goners. It’s the advertising that supports them (commercial and classified) and as soon as everyone moves over to google local classified ads it’ll be time to hold a wake (when was the last time you looked in the classifieds?) Come to think of it, google’ll probably kill most magazines too.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:25:07 +0000

We dropped the newspaper not long after the JOA. All my news comes from that great bastion of Truth, the Internet (and NPR if I’m driving while news is on.)

By: Flasshe

Flasshe — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:47:15 +0000

The TV listings are such an integral part of many people’s Sunday morning ritual. Taking them away is… Unamerican!

That Tod Goldberg blog is pretty amusing!

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:21:19 +0000

I haven't looked at a Sunday TV guide in years. It's much easier to browse through the listings on my TiVo or online. Still, it seems to be one of those things that some people really care about, since every time the newspaper makes a change to it, a lot of folks get mad and write furious letters to the editor. I agree that having to sort Sunday papers into TV guide/no TV guide sounds like more trouble than it's worth. My Sunday paper comes with loads of sections I never look at, like the employment ads and the car section. Why not make those a la carte too? I wouldn't have cared so much about Parade before I became a fan of Tod Goldberg's blog, featuring his weekly Letters To Parade. Now I have the fun every Sunday of trying to guess which letter to Personality Parade he'll choose to mock.