[lbo-talk] Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers

Julio Huato juliohuato at gmail.com
Tue Oct 31 18:17:39 PST 2006


Doug on the cost of entry in the national newspaper business:


> Enormous. Crushingly enormous.

How come local newspapers survive? I also wonder about the economics of the Village Voice. How come the Guardian or Die Tagezeitung survive? Wouldn't the left -- very broadly defined -- be able to publish something like the U.S. Today?

As to ravi's comments, I wonder what the role of the dead-tree part is. Isn't it all about aligning reporters (with cameras) in many places (able to "wire" their stories), editors, opinion writers, desktop publishers, ad sales people, and some kind of management? Doesn't computers and the web make it all easier? How about a The Nation Daily? Or a The LBO-Talk Journal?

Even in Mexico, the left has its newspaper.

Questions to Doug or whoever wishes to comment.

Julio



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