There will be a major city in America without a daily paper this fall.
So many of us in the journalism business have had to get used to new things. New age of versatility that has us do print, Internet, radio and TV. Twitter. The 24-hour news cycle. The whole business has changed, and we all probably knew this day was coming. But it'll be an eerie day this fall: The storied New Orleans Times-Picayune, born in 1837, will stop publishing seven days a week. It'll publish three days a week -- Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
The Saints are the biggest story in the city, all fall. But you won't read about them away from a computer until Wednesday every week in New Orleans. There'll be a Super Bowl in New Orleans in February. Will those folks not inclined to read online have to wait 'til Wednesday to read about the biggest game in America? The paper will cut about 50 jobs from the 150-member staff and begin devoting most of its energy to the online product. This cannot be good for journalism, no matter which way the parent company, Advance Publications, spins it. On Friday, one of the best NFL reporters in our business, the T-P's Jeff Duncan, was mulling his future. He'll find out soon if he still has a job, or if he'll have to re-interview for it, just like the rest of the 150 journalists on staff. He hopes the paper's love for sports gives him a path to stay. He was reminiscing about covering the city in the days after Katrina, when he saw a dead body wrapped on a porch, interviewed petrified zookeepers at the New Orleans Zoo who were afraid of looters invading their place, bathed in a neighborhood swimming pool because there was no running water for days, reported on gang members taking care of an older woman who didn't have access to her medicine (they broke into a pharmacy to steal it for her) ... and felt more alive than he ever had as a reporter -- even though he'd never been a news reporter before. "I'll never forget going down to the Convention Center with our old sports editor, David Meeks, bringing the papers to a group of people at the Convention Center,'' Duncan said. "They were overjoyed. They were crying. It was a connection to their old lives, because they didn't know what their lives held, with all the doomsday reports they were hearing. It was like we were giving out money.'' I'll never forget after the Saints lost to the Bears in the 2006 NFC title game, and the team returned home to find this blaring headline in the paper the next day: "BLESS YOU BOYS.'' There's a great connection between paper and city and paper and team. And it'll never be the same, sadly. Read more: Kyle Orton's 2011 proof what impact trade deadline move can have - Peter King - SI.com |
Technology is changing the world and the way we view it. It's sad really. Out with the old and in with the new.
I'm old school with most things especially technology.lol |
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This is very sad news and should be a sad day in America.
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The newspapers have no one to blame but themselves. Nearly every major city paper leans hard to the left and their reporting hasn't been objective in many years. Many of us that are conservative stopped reading and suscribing to newspapers years ago for this very reason. The only time I will waste money on one is when I need it to clean windows.
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While a little nostalgic, IMHO not sad. I am sure they will print a special edition on Monday or Tuesday or whatever day if something special happens, like TWO DAT!
Besides, this should please all of tree huggers in light of the reduced usage of paper. Change is good! Let's embrace it! |
I can read an entire paper in the sauna......
My phone overheats and turns off after 10 minutes. paper> technology |
mixed feelings on this one.
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LMAO!!! Good riddance. The world just took a step in right direction. |
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Sauna = Dry heat :) Steam Room --- recycled sweat. Not my cup of tea |
technology sucks. I hate it. Everything I need was invented before I was born. And what has it really done for us? Made us fatter, lazier, weaker, and freakier, even less human. If we were smart, we'd say out with the new, back to the old, which worked better. The only thing I hate more than Change is Hope.
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I stopped buying newspapers the day I got an Internet connection, and never looked back. I get what you old school guys are saying, I mean, me too back in the day used to start the day off with a copy of the USA Today and Times Picayune. Very happy to have the Internet which is more up to date, and no newspapers piled up around the house! I used to also be a magazine freak, no more of that too since I got an Internet connection. So basically, I do feel bad that folks at the Times Picayune are losing their jobs, but at the same time the printed newspaper business is a business that is seriously outdated.
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I am not sure I would read anything in a sauna or steamroom. Besides, no need for one of those in the deep south. I was in Borger TX last week where it was 108. Houston's humidity is plenty good too!:bng: |
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Don't get me started. |
I am older sort of hate to see this go. I do not get the paper delivered anymore because I work so early I can't get to it. So people like me are the reason for the failure (And of course Katrina which decimated the population). I do try and stop and get one on my way to work. I am not so sure this paper was so liberal just my view. Times have changes but I used to really enjoy my coffee and paper in the morning. For me the computer just is not the same.
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I grew up with the Times-Picayune; it will be missed as I go home I read it all the time- MAN give me a DIXIE!!
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Well yeah, but...I mean that New Ninja 1000 is pretty effin sweet. If we go back can we at least keep the Ninja? |
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As was predicted in Fahrenheit 451.
(BTW Ray Bradbury died 5th June 2012) |
ray bradbury was still alive?
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Bloody Time Zone! |
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