file photo by Boyd Loving
The NY Times will likely always exist in some form, but it is fading in relevance. It’s dying for a number of reasons, but mostly, it’s dying because the trend in how people consume news is rapidly changing. It’s no different to record companies and record stores managing the music business. The Times keeps trying to sell itself through online subscriptions but people simply won’t pay a cent for it. News is easily available elsewhere for free. Same deal with lesser outlets, like The Record. The other main reason is its content. The liberal bias might work on the Upper West Side, but not in Preoria. America is predominantly right-of-center, and The NYT, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and a whole host of what’s known as the mainstream media is losing market share and dying.
I’m shedding crocodile tears.
Too bad….I’d like to see The Record implode too. Completely out of touch with their constituencies.
Printed news may be dying but there will always be a need for quality news sites. We are going to have to pay for online news content.
I have NYT delivery and I get the web site for free. I primarily read the web site. The Wall Street Journal and the Economist charge for web access but they are worth it.
All the network & cable news sites have complimentary web sites.
Be careful of the free news blogs. The writers are often anoymous or use a pseudonym. They make it up as they go along.
“the writers are often anoymous or use a pseudonym. They make it up as they go along”…like you ?
Yea, well how about that papers like the Record have a terribly driven agenda about things the writers think is important in their isolated little narrow minded cubicles & the public basically doesn’t care about or might even disagree &/or do not want to get pounded over their heads again & again on the way to the nineteenth nervous breakdown.
No, we are not going to have to pay for news content. Record companies were saying that about music in their final days. Just like Napster and what came after it, the cat is out of the bag with free news. It’s everywhere and it’s a lot more than blogs. The Times is dying because they have massive overhead and they just cannot compete with free. Adapt or die, and the Times just cannot adapt.
Careful 3:19. Apparently bloggers are a very sensitive lot!!