Tuesday, August 12, 2014

A Bully Called This Newspaper A Bird Cage Liner, And What Happened Next Is Incredible. Please read.

This is sufficiently depressing to stand on its own, sans comment. Thanks (well, maybe) to my mouthpiece for the link.
Print Is Down, and Now Out; Media Companies Spin Off Newspapers, to Uncertain Futures, by David Carr (NYT)

... The Nashville Scene noted that readers had to wait only one day to find out what the news of the future looks like: a Page 1 article in The Tennessean about Kroger, a grocery store and a major advertiser, lowering its prices.

If this is the future — attention news shoppers, Hormel Chili is on sale in Aisle 5 — what is underway may be a kind of mercy killing.

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