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Reflections of a Newsosaur

Cable news overdosed at the Weiner roast

Anthony Weiner disgraced himself, his family and his constituents by his bizarre misbehavior on Twitter, but he has an explanation: He has some sort of psychological problem.The cable channels and other news organizations that whipped his indiscretio...

The value of journalism, sir, is not ‘zero’

John Paton, the chief executive piloting the radical remake of the Journal Register Co., declared last week that the value of journalism is “about zero.” But he is dead wrong.First and foremost, Paton is wrong to dismiss the intrinsic value to soci...

Time to bring back a P.M. news product

Back in 1940, 80% of the 1,877 of the daily newspapers in the United States were published on the afternoon cycle, meaning that editions were printed some time prior to noon for delivery to consumers coming home from work. And it was good.By 2000, 52%...

Newspaper sales crisis enters sixth year

Following an unexpectedly sharp decline in advertising demand in the first three months of this year, newspapers now appear to be entering the sixth year of an unprecedented collapse that has vaporized half of their principal revenues since 2006.The Ne...

Newspaper sales crisis enters sixth year

Following an unexpectedly sharp decline in advertising demand in the first three months of this year, newspapers now appear to be entering the sixth year of an unprecedented collapse that has vaporized half of their principal revenues since 2006.The Ne...

Will newspaper values recover?

Dan Walters, the star political columnist at The Sacramento Bee, is not only the celebrated dean of the statehouse press corps in California, he also has been a loyal shareholder for 22 years of the company that owns his paper. But his faith in his emp...

Will newspaper values recover?

Dan Walters, the star political columnist at The Sacramento Bee, is not only the celebrated dean of the statehouse press corps in California, he also has been a loyal shareholder for 22 years of the company that owns his paper. But his faith in his emp...

Will newspaper values recover?

Dan Walters, the star political columnist at The Sacramento Bee, is not only the celebrated dean of the statehouse press corps in California, he also has been a loyal shareholder for 22 years of the company that owns his paper. But his faith in his emp...

Getting the Osama bulletin in a Moslem land

We all remember where we were on the morning of 9/11 but I found myself in an equally memorable place - Turkey - on the day the world learned that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a daring raid at his lair near Pakistan's equivalent of West Point.St...

Getting the Osama bulletin in a Moslem land

We all remember where we were on the morning of 9/11 but I found myself in an equally memorable place - Turkey - on the day the world learned that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a daring raid at his lair near Pakistan's equivalent of West Point.St...

Why newspaper ad sales are not recovering

Nearly two years after the U.S. economy began climbing out of the worst recession since the 1930s, advertising sales at newspapers have yet to hit bottom.Now, the question haunting every newspaper executive is: How low will they go? And the daunting q...

Why newspaper ad sales are not recovering

Nearly two years after the U.S. economy began climbing out of the worst recession since the 1930s, advertising sales at newspapers have yet to hit bottom.Now, the question haunting every newspaper executive is: How low will they go? And the daunting q...