http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/12/07/death-throes/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/12/07/death-throes/comment-page-1/#comment-79958 daveinboca Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:11:33 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=11373#comment-79958 The Chicago Tribune and LA Times have been inserting editorializing and slanted bias in their straight news coverage---readers are just not going to sift through this stuff when they have online and other news options available. A lot of other papers are probably going to undergo the same death throes in the near future. Ditto for weekly newsmags which are crib sheets for PC thinking. The Chicago Tribune and LA Times have been inserting editorializing and slanted bias in their straight news coverage—readers are just not going to sift through this stuff when they have online and other news options available. A lot of other papers are probably going to undergo the same death throes in the near future. Ditto for weekly newsmags which are crib sheets for PC thinking.

]]> http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2008/12/07/death-throes/comment-page-1/#comment-79945 feeblemind Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:37:14 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=11373#comment-79945 It may just be me, but a major reason for the decline of dead tree editions might be the fact that the delivery is so slow. Items one sees online tonight might not appear in print for at least a day, and often longer. Papers are also expensive, clutter up the house, and can be a disposal inconvienience if one is forced to recycle. Papers are 18th century technology. Their time is past. It may just be me, but a major reason for the decline of dead tree editions might be the fact that the delivery is so slow. Items one sees online tonight might not appear in print for at least a day, and often longer. Papers are also expensive, clutter up the house, and can be a disposal inconvienience if one is forced to recycle. Papers are 18th century technology. Their time is past.

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