So BO goes to Notre Dame to be the Great Concilliator and avail both sides of the Great Conciliator's Great Wisdom. Doesn't the Great One have enough to do without wading into a moral/religious/health issue which should have nothing to do with the government in the first place?
We all know that it takes a Mount Rushmore size ego to run for and be elected President of the U.S. But this Great Ego takes the cake among the ten or eleven presidents I have obseved. The astonishing part (at least to me) is that the only really Great discernible feature of BO is attitude.
Still, I have to keep reminding myself that I owe him one thing: The Clintons are off the front page.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
Seventy One: Dead Newspapers Walking
The demise of the newspaper business has been a long time coming, and the current recession is probably saving a lot of folks money by accelerating the death throes of the biz. A rally in newsaper advstising will just prolong the agony by a few months, or at best, a year for many papers.
The latest sign of the "times" is Dow Jones attempts at renewing WSJ subscriptions. I'm a long time subscriber, and I apprciate the ease and familiarity of perusing the paper most mornings. However, this, like all products and services, is only attractive up to a certain price. When DOW contacted me by mail and telephone telling me how much I would lose if I didn't ante up the 350% increase for what appears to be "news according to Rupert," I knew the writing was on the wall.
In the past few months, newspapers have gone under in Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Boston, New York, Minneapolis, and other cities. Readership is down, so advertising is down, so profits are down. Anybody watching the demographic under thirty knows that newspapers are anathema to this class. Magazines will last a little longer, but only because of glossy pictures. As soon as portable divices like the Kindle are able to reproduce these images in color, the mags will be dead too.
The latest sign of the "times" is Dow Jones attempts at renewing WSJ subscriptions. I'm a long time subscriber, and I apprciate the ease and familiarity of perusing the paper most mornings. However, this, like all products and services, is only attractive up to a certain price. When DOW contacted me by mail and telephone telling me how much I would lose if I didn't ante up the 350% increase for what appears to be "news according to Rupert," I knew the writing was on the wall.
In the past few months, newspapers have gone under in Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Boston, New York, Minneapolis, and other cities. Readership is down, so advertising is down, so profits are down. Anybody watching the demographic under thirty knows that newspapers are anathema to this class. Magazines will last a little longer, but only because of glossy pictures. As soon as portable divices like the Kindle are able to reproduce these images in color, the mags will be dead too.
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