Comments on: I’m not a charity case. Are you? http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2008/11/22/im-not-a-charity-case-are-you/ Thoughts from a technologist and journalist Wed, 09 May 2012 14:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Michael Josefowicz http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2008/11/22/im-not-a-charity-case-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5296 Michael Josefowicz Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:18:09 +0000 http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/?p=912#comment-5296 @ Trey Nice post. If only the "big city" papers could stop drinking their own Kool-Aid and focus on audiences of about 20,000 life would be so much better for them. I live in Brooklyn. In my "neighborhood" there are about 90,000 people. So that should mean that it could support about 4 newspapers...if they had the right info in the right format at the right price. I especially liked when you said " Who thought a newspaper job would be worth more than making automobiles." @ Trey
Nice post. If only the “big city” papers could stop drinking their own Kool-Aid and focus on audiences of about 20,000 life would be so much better for them.

I live in Brooklyn. In my “neighborhood” there are about 90,000 people. So that should mean that it could support about 4 newspapers…if they had the right info in the right format at the right price.

I especially liked when you said ” Who thought a newspaper job would be worth more than making automobiles.”

]]> By: Trey http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2008/11/22/im-not-a-charity-case-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5292 Trey Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:51:44 +0000 http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/?p=912#comment-5292 I joined this group for obvious reasons — I work for a newspaper. I graduated a year ago from college and found a job in this already dying news business because I love it. I like the smell of ink and being able to feel my news in my hands. I am an exception, however, because this was my father's business as well. Not his newspaper, mind you, but his choice of work. The only newspapers still making profits are small community-orientated newspapers — the only source of news for these residents in under 20,000 people cities. Obviously, most of the newspapers the general public still associate us with are large publications: USA Today, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the New York Times, blah, blah, blah. The point being, I still get my check because we make money selling newspapers. Advertising makes most of my checks, but my newspaper remains the only source of information for my tiny metropolis where Walmart is still the center of town. So please, before making your comments about how we're all dead, remember that newspapers were the only source of news for most people older than you, and we, the educated few, are lucky enough to remain viable in these economic times. Who thought a newspaper job would be worth more than making automobiles. I joined this group for obvious reasons — I work for a newspaper. I graduated a year ago from college and found a job in this already dying news business because I love it. I like the smell of ink and being able to feel my news in my hands. I am an exception, however, because this was my father’s business as well. Not his newspaper, mind you, but his choice of work. The only newspapers still making profits are small community-orientated newspapers — the only source of news for these residents in under 20,000 people cities. Obviously, most of the newspapers the general public still associate us with are large publications: USA Today, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the New York Times, blah, blah, blah. The point being, I still get my check because we make money selling newspapers. Advertising makes most of my checks, but my newspaper remains the only source of information for my tiny metropolis where Walmart is still the center of town. So please, before making your comments about how we’re all dead, remember that newspapers were the only source of news for most people older than you, and we, the educated few, are lucky enough to remain viable in these economic times. Who thought a newspaper job would be worth more than making automobiles.

]]> By: Joan http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2008/11/22/im-not-a-charity-case-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5268 Joan Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:40:50 +0000 http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/?p=912#comment-5268 Thank you, thank you, thank you. After about the 15th invite to join that group - all of which I turned down - I was starting to think I was the only sane person left out there. Thank you, thank you, thank you. After about the 15th invite to join that group – all of which I turned down – I was starting to think I was the only sane person left out there.

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]]> By: A cry from the heartland: “Don’t let newspapers die” — Zero Percent Idle http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2008/11/22/im-not-a-charity-case-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5198 A cry from the heartland: “Don’t let newspapers die” — Zero Percent Idle Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:02:03 +0000 http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/?p=912#comment-5198 [...] to Journalism Iconoclast (Pat Thornton), I just found the “Don’t Let Newspapers Die” Facebook [...] [...] to Journalism Iconoclast (Pat Thornton), I just found the “Don’t Let Newspapers Die” Facebook [...]

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