Comments on: I Don’t Want Any Other Paper But Sunday’s, OK? http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/07/24/i-dont-want-any-other-paper-but-sundays-ok/ Sustainability, Environment, Progressive Politics, Peak Oil, Going Green. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:29:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: david http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/07/24/i-dont-want-any-other-paper-but-sundays-ok/#comment-2591 david Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:11:21 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/07/24/i-dont-want-any-other-paper-but-sundays-ok/#comment-2591 I think they were doing it to everyone. Honestly, I just have to cancel the damn thing! I think they were doing it to everyone. Honestly, I just have to cancel the damn thing!

]]> By: Jessie Mae http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/07/24/i-dont-want-any-other-paper-but-sundays-ok/#comment-2590 Jessie Mae Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:50:12 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/07/24/i-dont-want-any-other-paper-but-sundays-ok/#comment-2590 I had more or less the exact same conversation with a representative from the LA Times last week. I finally had to say "Do not send me your paper" again really fast and hang up, because she wouldn't take no for an answer. Which basically meant that even if I would consider getting the paper in the future, now I won't because they were so pushy. I had more or less the exact same conversation with a representative from the LA Times last week. I finally had to say “Do not send me your paper” again really fast and hang up, because she wouldn’t take no for an answer. Which basically meant that even if I would consider getting the paper in the future, now I won’t because they were so pushy.

]]> By: geologue http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/07/24/i-dont-want-any-other-paper-but-sundays-ok/#comment-2574 geologue Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:26:35 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/07/24/i-dont-want-any-other-paper-but-sundays-ok/#comment-2574 There is an even greater problem because most news on the internet is ultimately provided by <i>newspapers</i>. And even if they never printed another sheet of paper, it still costs money to send reporters out to cover the news and hire other staff to edit and get stories out to the public. If we continue with the status quo, soon there may not be a Sunday L.A. Times, or any other day of the week, paper or not, because they'll have been forced under by loss of readership. Forcing people to accept delivery of more dead trees isn't going to solve the problem, either. I think sooner rather than later, news articles won't be free online anymore. We're very lucky that right now most providers are still willing to give us something for nothing in hopes that we'll subscribe (ha ha). In order to maintain anything like the current coverage, I think the whole news industry will have to restructure itself. Blogs are great, by the way, for getting commentary or special interest information that may otherwise fall by the wayside, but they don't seem nearly ready to fill the shoes currently occupied by the army of journalists that newspapers employ. There is an even greater problem because most news on the internet is ultimately provided by newspapers. And even if they never printed another sheet of paper, it still costs money to send reporters out to cover the news and hire other staff to edit and get stories out to the public. If we continue with the status quo, soon there may not be a Sunday L.A. Times, or any other day of the week, paper or not, because they’ll have been forced under by loss of readership.

Forcing people to accept delivery of more dead trees isn’t going to solve the problem, either. I think sooner rather than later, news articles won’t be free online anymore. We’re very lucky that right now most providers are still willing to give us something for nothing in hopes that we’ll subscribe (ha ha). In order to maintain anything like the current coverage, I think the whole news industry will have to restructure itself.

Blogs are great, by the way, for getting commentary or special interest information that may otherwise fall by the wayside, but they don’t seem nearly ready to fill the shoes currently occupied by the army of journalists that newspapers employ.

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