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11-22-2019, 11:39 AM
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Location: New York Area
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Originally Posted by Thatsright19
I hate when I have problems with the newspaper. I’d get right on the party line and give them a piece of my mind!
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Been there done that. |
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11-27-2019, 11:30 AM
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Newspapers should treat their customers well. There are not as many of them anymore. I'm still wondering how they are still in business.
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11-27-2019, 12:39 PM
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Location: New York Area
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Originally Posted by RJ312
Newspapers should treat their customers well. There are not as many of them anymore. I'm still wondering how they are still in business.
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Good question. The problem described in the OP is about 80%, not 100% fixed. |
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12-02-2019, 04:19 PM
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I consulted for a major daily for three of the longest years of my life.
As a category, newspapers are seriously the stupidest single business ever, top to bottom. Just unbelievably short-sighted in every facet of their decision-making. These were companies that had huge resources when the Internet came along, but were too slow-witted to acknowledge the coming enormous changes taking place in the media industry. Nope. They did what was easy and ignored reality. They were the dinosaurs lumbering along while the internet was the small mammals that were sneaking into their nests and eating their eggs.
I remember a meeting with the executive team of this major daily. I showed them the declining circulation numbers. I showed them how no one under the age of 40 was subscribing (This was twenty years ago), and I begged them to do something, anything.
Know what the reaction was? "Don't tell the publisher about our declining circulation numbers. He doesn't want to hear them." When I suggested that perhaps they needed to start some kind of long-term marketing program, I got "On TV and the Internet? Why those are lesser mediums."
Today, that major daily is on the respirator. Their once-proud editorial product is now little more than online click-bait.
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12-02-2019, 05:48 PM
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Location: New York Area
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Originally Posted by jbgusa
Good question. The problem described in the OP is about 80%, not 100% fixed.
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I spoke too soon. The problem came roaring back. |
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12-02-2019, 07:38 PM
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Location: Silicon Valley
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If you like these and more, please visit the first world problems thread here on the site.
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Today, 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted by artillery77
If you like these and more, please visit the first world problems thread here on the site.
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Indeed. This thread has established a new high-water mark for first world problems. |
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