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2014-06-19 Economy

54,200 newspaper, magazine jobs axed since 2003

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Posted by Fred 2014-06-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Did the Harvard study include the fact that most people have had it with the liberal wienies and all their bloviating in support of the One?

Also, most of us don't trust the MSM as far as they can spit into a high wind. So where are these clowns going to work? In the White House?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-06-19 00:21|| 2014-06-19 00:21|| Front Page Top

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-06-19 09:03|| 2014-06-19 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 One can blame a whole mess of factors. Consolidation of the media industry, the industry's near-total reliance on the news-source monopoly known as the Associated Press, etc.

There's software out that will allow a bot to both gather information and place it into a selected template, writing the article. Not much different than the current 'journalist' and certainly a lot less expensive to maintain.

Posted by Pappy 2014-06-19 10:42|| 2014-06-19 10:42|| Front Page Top

#4 It was the loss of the classifieds, that was a fat, fat, fat margin.

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-19 17:17|| 2014-06-19 17:17|| Front Page Top

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