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The Irony Of It All
Brad Hollerbach

Magazine Closure Signals An End To Editors... Rejoice!

Posted Monday, December 21, 2009, at 1:02 AM

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  • Probably not, Brad. He most likely is cooking up his own pot of esoteric stew or some such. How about the subject "Watching rust form on the front porch railings"?

    -- Posted by voyager on Mon, Dec 21, 2009, at 9:47 AM
  • Voyager, I would consider that as a subject, but my porch rails are wood with aluminum stiles. They do get this black sap on them from our elm tree that has to be power-washed off, but no rust.

    I figured with the next two weeks being holidays and all, that readership is going to be down on the website. Don't want to waste any "hard hitting" blogs if no one is looking at them is how I look at it.

    Thanks for reading and Happy Holidays!

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Mon, Dec 21, 2009, at 10:02 AM
  • Well, thanks for another one written solely for your own amusement. And newspaper people everywhere cannot understand why readership is down!

    -- Posted by ParkerDaws on Tue, Dec 22, 2009, at 8:44 AM
  • Perhaps it was a smidge narcissistic. I did find this news about E&P a little saddening and something that would be overlooked by most readers. Editors -- and to a lesser extent, publishers -- play a vital role in mass communications that most lay-people don't consider.

    They filter and mold their product's content and thanks to years of experience are able to weed out much of the untruths or semi-truths for their readers. That's not to say that editors are perfect. They're human. They make mistakes and they sometimes have ulterior motives or agendas. This is true for any media, not just newspapers.

    Nationwide overall newspaper readership is not down. Including their online editions many papers have significantly grown their audience. The problem is with the economic model.

    Most online media websites are free to viewers and rely entirely on advertising which typically generates a lot less revenue than their parent media be that newspaper, magazines, TV or radio.

    TFR

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Tue, Dec 22, 2009, at 9:35 AM
  • You might want to do some further research. All the recent research surveys by respected organization such as Pew and Scarborough indicate that newspaper readership continues to decline. Even when you add print and electronic media together there has been a drop from year to year.

    -- Posted by ParkerDaws on Tue, Dec 22, 2009, at 7:42 PM