Newspapers Dying: Loons Hit Hardest

From the only reliable source of news on the net, The Onion.  The Onion is certainly on to something here.  When a website exists chronicling the death of newspapers, well, the handwriting is on the wall, if no longer in the rapidly vanishing newspapers.  The Onion is also correct that only loons would have thousands of papers in their house.  Of course people who have thousands of books filling their house in every spare area, most of which they will never find time to read, are completely normal.  The indispensable Iowahawk has a column here  from 2003 in which he noted the travails of one small struggling newspaper in New York City.


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3 Responses to “Newspapers Dying: Loons Hit Hardest”

  1. Tito Edwards says:
    Tuesday, March 9, 2010 A.D. at 8:11 am

    I agree, it’s completely normal to have stacks of somewhat unread books lying around the house.

  2. Donald R. McClarey says:
    Tuesday, March 9, 2010 A.D. at 8:15 am

    Yeah. I just know I’ll get around to reading my set of Charles Oman’s 7 volume History of the Peninsular War someday, probably in retirement.

  3. Colin Gormley says:
    Wednesday, March 10, 2010 A.D. at 9:19 am

    I think by far the greatest issue of dying newspapers is the fact that the quality of the writing is terrible these days. Open Time magazine to even 1970′s during the Nixon days and the quality is SO much better.

    This isn’t to say there isn’t talent out there (like here for example ;-) . But that by and large the quality of writing has been slipping for decades.

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