Comments on: Plain Dealer: #10 on TIME’s list of papers soon to fold or go digital http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2009/03/09/plain-dealer-10-on-times-list-of-papers-soon-to-fold-or-go-digital/ "She is very powerful, so be nice to her." Former Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents, Eric Fingerhut Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:51:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jill Miller Zimon http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2009/03/09/plain-dealer-10-on-times-list-of-papers-soon-to-fold-or-go-digital/comment-page-1/#comment-249661 Jill Miller Zimon Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:04:05 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/?p=12875#comment-249661 A thank you to John and <a href="http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2009/03/09/update-pd-says-news-of-death-or-going-digital-only-is-baseless/" rel="nofollow">here's</a> my follow-up post about Terry Egger's feelings on the matter. A thank you to John and here’s my follow-up post about Terry Egger’s feelings on the matter.

]]> By: Elana http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2009/03/09/plain-dealer-10-on-times-list-of-papers-soon-to-fold-or-go-digital/comment-page-1/#comment-249152 Elana Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:20:50 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/?p=12875#comment-249152 Was having a conversation about this exact topic over the weekend. Newspapers have made the same mistake the railroads made when airplanes were introduced -- they thought they were in the rail business when really they were in the transportation business. The internet is simply a delivery system - it doesn't change the need for quality news and advertisers are not going to go back to newspapers anymore than most people are going to opt to take the train across country when they can fly there in 6 hours. Was having a conversation about this exact topic over the weekend. Newspapers have made the same mistake the railroads made when airplanes were introduced — they thought they were in the rail business when really they were in the transportation business.

The internet is simply a delivery system – it doesn’t change the need for quality news and advertisers are not going to go back to newspapers anymore than most people are going to opt to take the train across country when they can fly there in 6 hours.

]]> By: anastasia http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2009/03/09/plain-dealer-10-on-times-list-of-papers-soon-to-fold-or-go-digital/comment-page-1/#comment-248933 anastasia Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:18:52 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/?p=12875#comment-248933 I don't see it. I can't imagine the PD going entirely digital as they have barely dipped their toe into that yet and have an extremely poor grasp of the web. And I believe the PD is the only paper on that list that if it folded would leave an immense market with absolutely no newspaper at all. We don't have a sister city like St. Paul or Dallas to pick up the slack. So that would be unprecedented, and while I know new things are happening every day, I honestly can't imagine a market this size with NO daily newspaper. You'd be looking at a mammoth black hole as far as information, no matter how poorly the PD is doing its job, with its right-wing bias, its overemphasis on sports and its axing of a whole swath of local news that people connect with. I'm saying this one's a bad call. I don’t see it. I can’t imagine the PD going entirely digital as they have barely dipped their toe into that yet and have an extremely poor grasp of the web. And I believe the PD is the only paper on that list that if it folded would leave an immense market with absolutely no newspaper at all. We don’t have a sister city like St. Paul or Dallas to pick up the slack. So that would be unprecedented, and while I know new things are happening every day, I honestly can’t imagine a market this size with NO daily newspaper. You’d be looking at a mammoth black hole as far as information, no matter how poorly the PD is doing its job, with its right-wing bias, its overemphasis on sports and its axing of a whole swath of local news that people connect with. I’m saying this one’s a bad call.

]]> By: John Kroll http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2009/03/09/plain-dealer-10-on-times-list-of-papers-soon-to-fold-or-go-digital/comment-page-1/#comment-248668 John Kroll Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:07:41 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/?p=12875#comment-248668 The Plain Dealer would like to note that reports of our death are greatly exaggerated. Or, in the exact word of Publisher Terrance C.Z. Egger, <a href="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/03/publisher_calls_report_baseles.html" rel="nofollow">"baseless."</a> The Plain Dealer would like to note that reports of our death are greatly exaggerated. Or, in the exact word of Publisher Terrance C.Z. Egger, “baseless.”

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