Comments on: Pew: Newspaper closures won’t hurt

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:28:20 +0000

I think you are right Father. I am interested in seeing how the La Crosse Tribune is doing as opposed to the bigger ones. The small areas need their papers.

By: Fr. Ron

Fr. Ron — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:18:29 +0000

Being in a small town (a borough, actually) the local paper still actually serves a purpose: although it has an op-ed page, it has the police blotter, local happenings, fires, arrests, etc., a comics page with puzzles, classifieds. If I view things correctly, the papers that are shutting down are these big ones who think their job is to form opinion, to muckrake, and all those other things that, apparently, are turning people off. For me, our newspaper couldn’t really be replaced by the internet. As for these big, self-important papers, quit wasting trees: you’re not saying anything I care to read.

By: Traffic Cop Timmy

Traffic Cop Timmy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:15:27 +0000

Conservatives have left in droves with no effort to get them back.

And conservatives are (at least for now) the ones with the money and the skills to actually read. They have also left the MSM networks and web sites with no effort to get them back. They keep making the same mistake expecting different results. Eventually they run out of “sub-prime borrowers” (readers) to prop themselves up.

By: Keets

Keets — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:53:03 +0000

I have no sympathy. Papers brought this on themselves when they replaced doing their job with sharing their opinions and worshipping Democrats.

By: Wankette

Wankette — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:43:18 +0000

I actually prefer to sit down with the paper. I just do it so rarely, as I’m fed up with reading how Republicans suck. In the TV reviews.

By: David Marcoe

David Marcoe — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:59:56 +0000

“Instead of finding or inventing a way to survive online, something no paper has successfully managed at this point, they grasped to the print model.”

Except for the Wallstreet Journal.