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About This Page: This is a discussion on LA Kings Talk within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. random addition:
My cousin is a journalist. He graduated with honors from Howard University, worked for ESPN as an intern then staff writer for ESPN.com, then won a Pulitzer
My cousin is a journalist. He graduated with honors from Howard University, worked for ESPN as an intern then staff writer for ESPN.com, then won a Pulitzer for staff work on Hurricane Katrina.
Then he got laid off with about a third of his newspapers staff and ended up in Vegas. It took him months to find a job remotely having to do with journalism and even then it was so woefully underpaying and he was so overqualified for it he ended up having to keep a second job to pay the bills.
Matt did a good job. Sorry to hear how they led him to believe he was going full -time and getting a raise and then being laid off.
The stats for his blog, he cannot take full credit for. Hammond is the one who built the viewership for the blog. Matt can take credit for not losing the viewership that Hammond created.
Newspapers are not in the journalism business. They are in the advertising business. Between cable tv and the internet, nobody has to wait 24hrs to find out what happened in the world that day...so newspapers are dying because advertisers would rather put spots on MSNBC and cnn.com whose rates scale with ratings and click-through rather than buying spots in print that are only getting local readership. The local/metro section of any paper, where there are actually restaurant and art show and activity reviews and human interest stories, is the only one that is likely consistently drawing readers' attention away from the RSS feed from Reuters that dumps the day's events in their inbox.
Blaming bloggers/amateur journalists for supplanting newspapers as peoples' primary sources of news is kinda ridiculous...blaming newspaper managers for not having figured out a robust internet business model to channel ad revenue that would inevitably be lost as more people choose to read their papers online rather than in print makes sense.
I bet newspapers would still be making good money if they didn't give away their stories for free on the internet.
Why would people pay for yesterday's news when they could get it for free today?
they tried that. didn't work. remember needing subscriptions/user names/passwords to get onto various newspaper sites? It is better to get as many eyeballs as possible to get people to click on ads.
too much competition and other ways to get your news on-line. Print is dying.
charles
