tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post814920496443527163..comments2024-03-22T18:15:47.666+11:00Comments on Boy on a bike: What will really murder newspapersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-47930527598684268532009-03-06T07:42:00.000+11:002009-03-06T07:42:00.000+11:00"As for the Economist, it's not targeted at econom..."As for the Economist, it's not targeted at economists. It's a journal of left-wing Euro-elitist political economy targeted at people who have a passing interest in economics."<BR/><BR/>That's as good a description as I have ever read.<BR/><BR/>As for not letting newspapers die, do we weep that we have jet aircraft (such as the 747) to fly to Europe in rather than say Sunderland flying boats? Geez, these people need to move on.Boy on a bikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452119541546978454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-40500542709369749402009-03-06T00:48:00.000+11:002009-03-06T00:48:00.000+11:00With other Fairfax papers soon bound to follow The...<I>With other Fairfax papers soon bound to follow The Age in mass sackings, the trouble for Fairfax journos (Miranda Divine and a handful of others excepted) is the Green Left Weekly, the ABC and SBS just aren't big enough to take them all in....</I><BR/><BR/>Fairfax's circulation was holding up okay last I checked, but rolling over that debt is going to be a hassle. Or at least, I hope it's going to be a hassle. You know, I was looking through Facebook the other day and I found a cause there titled <A HREF="http://apps.facebook.com/causes/148817?m=de0957a2" REL="nofollow">Don't Let Newspapers Die</A>. And I was thinking, er, why not?<BR/><BR/>The GLW was going broke a few years ago, what happened? I'm guessing they're still around? I went to the same university as BOAB, and when I started there, seeing reeky hippies selling the GLW was a weekly occurrence (at the end of the library, near the stairs, usually). By the time I finished, I hadn't seen them in years.<BR/><BR/>As for the Economist, it's not targeted at economists. It's a journal of left-wing Euro-elitist political economy targeted at people who have a passing interest in economics. When I was at university, I studied at that university's abysmally bad economics department, and in first and second year they used to prescribe articles from the Economist as tutorial readings. The bias was plainly obvious back then.<BR/><BR/>I've read that sort of sentiment before: people turning off the Economist because of its obvious slant and selective reporting. I'm not surprised in the slightest. Time magazine underwent a similar process about ten years before the Economist, as I noticed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-5718530125810362362009-03-05T22:28:00.000+11:002009-03-05T22:28:00.000+11:00I dumped my Economist subscription when it fell du...I dumped my Economist subscription when it fell due a few months back. It used to be a great read - now it is rubbish. Over the weekend, I threw 6 months worth of unopened Economists in the bin - it had gotten to the point where I wasn't even bothering to unwrap them anymore.<BR/><BR/>Oh how the mighty have fallen.Boy on a bikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452119541546978454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-24710813127845137952009-03-05T21:40:00.000+11:002009-03-05T21:40:00.000+11:00It's rare to get higher quality analysis out of a ...It's rare to get higher quality analysis out of a newspaper than a blog these days. I would buy papers if they weren't offering nothing but crap. I can get unlimited crap for free.<BR/><BR/>My subscription to The Economist will be next to go; over the last five years the quality of their journalism has declined markedly: most recently they ran a massive special article that started by (and based itself upon) failing to understand that the cuss-word "liberal" as used by Americans does NOT mean a classical liberal at all.<BR/><BR/>If you can run a massive special report based on a simple misunderstanding of a colloquialism you're an idiot and I won't pay to read your crap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-55977617047028256882009-03-04T00:18:00.000+11:002009-03-04T00:18:00.000+11:00The Australian's circulation is holding up wel...The Australian's circulation is holding up well, which shows not all is lost. <BR/><BR/>It's the Fairfax press, led by the Spencer Street Soviet, that's rapidly headed for oblivion. The Fairfax journos, even at the Financial Review for God's sake, are so far out of touch with the general population it's not funny.<BR/><BR/>At the time the Fairfax press finally got its wish when we lost John Howard, the Fairfax share price was $5.00. Since the boy who lived in a car took over, FXJ has plumetted like a stone to today's $0.87. Anyone who bought FXJ to celebrate KRudd & Co's victory wouldn't have been on a high for long.<BR/><BR/>With other Fairfax papers soon bound to follow The Age in mass sackings, the trouble for Fairfax journos (Miranda Divine and a handful of others excepted) is the Green Left Weekly, the ABC and SBS just aren't big enough to take them all in....<BR/><BR/>Still, not all is lost; I hear that Domino's has lots of positions going for pizza delivery boys and girls.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com