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Internet is Killing the Newspaper

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the print-is-dead dept.

jose parinas writes "MediaDailyNews is reporting that 2005 will go down as one of the worst newspaper years in history, and 2006 doesn't look promising. Online media is continuously generating more readership and ad dollars, but currently only accounts for 5% of total newspaper revenues."

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  1. Internet Killed Frankenstein tonight by xmas2003 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Frankenstein's fan motor died around 1830 MST tonight on the halloween webcam and Frankenstein will no longer inflate ... my guess is that the duty-cycle wasn't rated for thousands of off/on's. The 7,000+ lights are still controllable (X10 super sockets are buzzing though) and trick-or-treaters are waving to the webcam ... but 'ol Frank is R.I.P.

    I suspect this will be modded down into oblivion, but I wanted to pay my respects to Frankenstein on Slashdot.

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    Hulk SMASH Celiac Disease
  2. wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    second fuckin post

  3. Balancing wood by Gary+Destruction · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    With all the wood used to board up homes because of hurricanes, less newspapers might not be a bad thing.

  4. Mis-leading headline by NRAdude · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It should read that 2005 has risen as the Year of the highest occurence of free-speach since the Alien and Sedition Act applied to Benjamin Franklins' nephew and his printing press.

    2006 should be even better, wrestling more first-hand journalism to audiences inexpensively; give or take more bias unethically asserted to the the Left and Right political paradigms instituted by government to split the people (just as George Washington predicted).

    [wouldn't have known this without some speech slipping through the cracks].

    God bless America (the first nation). God bless the united states of America (the people confederated). God bless the united States of America (the second-class confederacy). God bless the United States (the second nation).

    And thank your nearby alien feudal society, citizens of Congress, for keeping their courts-martial out of the Courts by Titles Of Nobility Act.

    From Your friendly network redundancy administrator.

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    without prejudice
  5. What, no Halloween memo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Time is running out, ESR!