Tough Times For Print

My condolences to the plant and press workers. Not the best news in these economic times, I know.

Personally, I'd have started in instead with the Star-Ledger's editorial staff. But then the dilemma would have really been, where oh where to begin? The statehouse reporters? Those on local beats? The arts critics? The sports hacks?

Print media is dead with the next generation growing up totally digital. Unionized print media will just die a bit faster.

Sorry for the loss of jobs.

But I hate the Ledger. I've tried 3 times to get it delivered-- never worked.

And the paper is unreadable with its strange section/page numbering system.

And all the crap ads? Good God.

But the real horror here is the NJ.com website. An argument can be made that the Ledger's problem was a failure of vision in determining that they have a build-in audience ready and waiting to find them online.

Instead we got NJ.com.

So while I get the Times and go to their site. I can't say the same for the Ledger. Instead for NJ news, I got to the Asbury Park Press online.

You "got," prof, you got as usual.

PRINT is not dead! I have been in the industry for over 20 years. And I have lots of work. Have you gone into a news stand or bookstore lately? I feel for the workers who are getting the pink slip.

I guess I should have been more specific. Newspapers are dying accross the country as far as circulation goes. Can't speak for books or magazines and did not mean to clump them in on the subject.

Mojo is right. There are more magazines and specialty/trade publications than ever before. Newspapers, however, have it tough. Nowadays, people, especially Gen-Xers are getting their news from podcasts and online.

(Go to. Remember, little typos are no biggie. No caps? That's a problem...)

When are you getting fitted for your Stetson?

Me? I already got the caps (which I've been known to wear... Well, you in a way that creates a great breeze!)

prof said: "And the paper is unreadable with its strange section/page numbering system."

This statement is completely baffling. There's hardly anything to the paper for it to be a maze; front page news section; state news section; county news; business and then the entertainment section. The NJ.com website, on the other hand, is a mess.

STL,

I find most of what Prof writes to be completely baffling and I think this is because we come from different home planets. I think the Prof is writing 'in code' and his posts are, in reality, messages to an invading alien armada, poised just outside Jupiter's orbit, waiting for Prof to 'seal the deal'.