Will someone save me a copy!!
Seattle P-I to publish last edition Tuesday
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will roll off the presses for the last time Tuesday.
The Hearst Corp. announced Monday that it would stop publishing the 146-year old newspaper, Seattle’s oldest business, and cease delivery to more than 117,600 weekday readers. The company, however, said it would maintain seattlepi.com, making it the nation’s largest daily newspaper to shift to an entirely digital news product.
“Tonight we’ll be putting the paper to bed for the last time,” Editor and Publisher Roger Oglesby told a silent newsroom Monday morning. “But the bloodline will live on.”
In a news release, Hearst CEO Frank Bennack Jr. said, “Our goal now is to turn seattlepi.com into the leading news and information portal in the region.”
The bloodline? What’s that supposed to mean?
Here’s my ass. Kiss it.
The times they are a change’n…
Cool. I can hardly wait for the left-wing rag SF Chronicle to do the same. The only thing I will miss is the crossword puzzle. I would pick up a copy around the workplace, immediately throw away the front section and sporting section, and turn immediately to the crossword, ignoring the rest of the “My Weekly Reader” level, infantile, Democrat Party suckup progressive crap. Think of all the trees and homes for birdies and beetles they will save. Gooooood bye.
What happens to subscribers who had paid for future issues? Do they get a refund?
Back several years ago, when I got a newspaper, I paid for 6 months or a year subscription in advance.
Another failed left wing rag bites the dust. Not really news any more than saying gravity still works.
As if I care…. When they produce something people consider not worth paying for, then they don’t deserve a ‘life’. Many more will follow. At the same token, people hardly have read as much news as today, on internet; free, updated and to your choice. The ‘dead tree’ guys are as out of touch with times as RIAA and the movie industry. Reality check!
Great critical analysis folks. The P-I is failing because newspapers are a sunset industry. People can get newer news from the internet, and doing so doesn’t require a huge time sensitive manufacturing and delivery architecture.
Not every issue is a political issue. Some issues, especially business or technical issues, are cost-benefit analysis relative other means of solving the problem.
I would wager that Seattle is an especially bad market for newspapers not because of politics, but because citizens are more likely to consume their news online.
#9, chris,
Well said and very true. One of the problems the right wing nut ditto heads face is that Boss Limpdick has brainwashed them into thinking all the press are left orientated when it is really the ditto heads and their masters are the radical extremists.
Wow. When did dvorak.org/blog get overrun by trolls?
The reason why newspapers are failing has nothing to do with politics. Who are the people who still read newspapers? Old people who tend to be more conservative. Who are the people who don’t read newspapers? Young people who tend to be more liberal.
Newspapers are failing because they are the 21st century equivalent of the town crier. They have been replaced by something better and more relevant. If newspapers weren’t full of stuff that I don’t care about then I might buy one once in a while. Why do they have sports sections? Why do they have horoscopes and Dear Abby and comic strips that haven’t been funny for the last twenty years? Why do they just regurgitate stories that the 24 hour news channels cover much more quickly?
The only people who should be morning the death of newspapers are their employees and the owners of paper mills.
# 9 chris said, “Great critical analysis folks. The P-I is failing because newspapers are a sunset industry. People can get newer news from the internet,”
Umm, wrong. Newspapers have been slipping in circ by pop since the 60’s. Try again.
#12, Cow-Paddy, Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath, Retired Mall Rent-A-Cop, Pretend Constitutional Scholar, Fake California Labor Law Expert, Pseudo Military Historian, Phony Climate Scientist, and Real Leading Troll Extraordinare,
Newspapers have been slipping in circ by pop since the 60’s. Try again.
Exactly what Chris just said you “expert” idiot.
Newspapers have been dieing since the competition got tougher. Oh, like over 100 years ago. Since broadcast news hit the air, an even bigger toll was seen. Now with the internet, that has intensified.
Get a brain, moran.
# 13 Mr. Fusion said, “Exactly what Chris just said you “expert” idiot.”
Really? Where did he mention falling subscriptions since the 60s? Oh, he didn’t.
Are you taking psychotropics again? Remember, mind altering drugs are bad for the thought process…
Is this the paper that refused to hand their pictures over to the FBI in a terrorism investigation?
#15, Lyin’ Mike,
Is that the case where the FBI didn’t have a warrant or even probable cause?
# 16 Mr. Fusion said, “Is that the case where the FBI didn’t have a warrant or even probable cause?”
Why would any sane person demand a warrant if they had data that might help in a terrorist case?
Newspapers made money from classified ads. They depended on that revenue stream more than the regular ads that appear throughout the newspaper and far more than the nominal amount collected from subscriptions and newspaper sales.
Craigslist and eBay have wiped out that source of revenue and there is nothing newspapers can do to replace it.
I’ve got a couple extra copies if you need one John.
Oops I got the story wrong. The Seattle PI didn’t have any pictures the FBI wanted to see. The FBI had the pictures and wanted the Seattle PI to run them to get the public’s help in finding them. The paper said no, but at least the local stations ran the pictures.
#17, Cow-Paddy, Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath, Retired Mall Rent-A-Cop, Pretend Constitutional Scholar, Fake California Labor Law Expert, Pseudo Military Historian, Phony Climate Scientist, and Real Leading Troll Extraordinare,
Why would any sane person demand a warrant if they had data that might help in a terrorist case?
If the police had enough information that the information could be evidence they would have enough grounds for a warrant. Maybe you should re-read that part of the Constitution that requires warrants.
Some effen expert.
#20, Lyin’ Mike,
It would be so much easier if YOU knew what the eff you were talking about.
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