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Good morning, Netizens…
Here we have David Horsey’s cartoon of the day, featuring a lot of journalists all standing in the unemployment line together. Then, at the end of the line we have a young woman dressed in a cheesecake blue bunny costume who is what?
Since I am not interested in the fury taking place yesterday, as I know it is going nowhere at all, let’s see what this girl might be, shall we?
Joe Shogun’s personal secretary?
Granny Grunt when she was much younger?
A resident of East Sprague looking for new turf?
You pick out who she is.
Dave
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Rifleman__Dodd on November 16 at 9:14 a.m.
I did valiently attempt to stay awake when reading the Spokesman’s December 2006 Future of the Newsroom. It was like most predictions.. so far off base and yet was close on some points. It was almost more of an editorial, ghost written by Carla Savalie.
Classified and non classified advertising was the bread and butter of the print journalism. The Thrifty Nickel began circa 1973 and did inch into the advertising of newspapers but it was not as destructive as Craigslist. As soon as Craigslist appeared, print journalism’s (subsidsidized by the advertising) death knell was already ringing. Some print media attempted their own home grown online version of Craigslist, however it was just so far behind, that most nearly wither on the vine.
That and competition with Blogs, video media (television stations) continue to hammer the print media so much that they have had to go online to compete with their own video’s, blogs, breaking news.
I believe we haven’t seen the tip of the iceberg in the demise of the print journalism, however I do still like the look and feel of an actual newspaper and glad to see the newspapers donated copies to the educational systems.
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/newsroom/archive/?postID=737
Future of the Newsroom can be found here.
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/media/pdf/010407_sr_newsroom_report.pdf
spokelooneh on November 16 at 1:14 p.m.
The rental units on east Sprague in no way look like the woman depicted in this cartoon.
And, I don’t get this cartoon.
eagleproducer on November 16 at 1:20 p.m.
loon: You beat me to it…
I think the gal in the bunny suit used to work for Playboy and the artist is attempting to portray the sweep of print media collapse. Even while pornography sales have soared, skin mags have declined in popularity compared to click, click, click…, naked women…
That’s what I got from the cartoon.
Rifleman__Dodd on November 16 at 1:54 p.m.
Well her facial expression is so remnant of Ms. Palin and Ms. Gregoire with a bit of Hillary and Monika Lewinski tossed in.
From the neck down…. I wouldn’t know. Once you turn the lights out…..
arliacne on November 16 at 4:12 p.m.
There are five problems I have with the Spokesman-Review, and other print media in general. It’s dated - by the time the paper hits the box the news already 12 hours or more old, second it’s unsearchable - enough said, third in order to sell issues the Spokesman-Review, as all other Cowles’ outlets, leans toward sensationalism, or yellow journalism, fourth it has shrunk so much and add space has increased to the point sometimes there is a single story on a page filled with ad copy. And finally, though this isn’t the fault of print media, to dogs down the road keep stealing it out of the box and scattering it all over the fields.
Times change. If the media doesn’t change with the times it has no place in this world.
lewis8457 on November 17 at 10:25 a.m.
how the heck can the news not be 12 hours old if you are reading it on paper? the SR needs some time to print and deliver.
You want timely news go to their web site and get the news that way. I check the SR site several times a day and it is updated on a regular basis.
arliacne on November 17 at 12:33 p.m.
Uhm … that was exactly my point. Newspapers are failing because they are no longer relevant. The news cycle is now down to the click of a mouse. News is now free (for the price of an internet connection) and nearly instantaneous. Anything less is the Olds.