Comments on: R.I.P. Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times

By: M.E.

M.E. — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 02:02:17 +0000

B.A.N.G., you’re dead.

By: guida mutui

guida mutui — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:06:29 +0000

offerte mutui…

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By: what happens when a newspaper dies « Columbia news, views & reviews

what happens when a newspaper dies « Columbia news, views & reviews — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:59:19 +0000

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By: msbpodcast

msbpodcast — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:40:16 +0000

He brings home the impact of a business decision on the community residents who had relied on their local newspapers for years to represent their interests.

But the local newspapers never represented their interests.

Now that the web is capable of doing a better job of catering to the needs of businesses who had been paying the freight those businesses are dropping the paper like it was on fire…

Its too bad that the media had been using the fact that businesses had been willing to put up with the flaws of advertising in mass media as better than the alternative (being totally unknown,) to push the medias’ editorial agenda.

It was a fatally flawed business model.

And that’s when all the trouble started…

The business community had its Bloomberg machines and its new letters and its value-adding research departments and they weren’t bothered with charging for the value they added.

Where’s the value being added to by a local rag?

Come to think of it, where’s the value being added to by a national rag?

In both cases you’re probably a shill for some agenda or other,

If you’re just some j-school hack, you’d better be good at doing research, otherwise…

By: JC Dill

JC Dill — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:44:01 +0000

I wanted to see the Oakland Tribune’s Pulitzer winning photos. A quick search found this link: http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_13525492

But, it’s 404 on the Tribune’s site, and a search of the site archives also fails to find it.

This sad fact explains so much of what’s wrong with the newspaper industry. At some point they published a photo essay of their 1989 Pulitzer winning photos on the web, but they are no longer found on the paper’s website. If the paper doesn’t have enough pride to keep a page like this up for all time, so everyone can see the photos that won this prestigious prize, what point is there in publishing a paper at all?