Organic News - It nourishes your mind just like food nourishes your body

[Marissa Moira]

This is what they're starting to call print media now like the New York Times and Washington Post. No more unfiltered lies like the internet I only read news from pure organic sources. I mean you're reading it on paper which is made from trees and printed with soy ink, so the organic title really isn't false advertising. But holy fuck there's so many people out who think the problem is we're not having legacy newspapers delivered to schools so all the young people can't get the same type of misinformation that the boomers grew up with.

Print media is fucking dying because all they're printing is trash. Like really from magazines, to news papers, to comics, basically everything print related isn't even fit to line a bird cage now because the author already shit all over the article before the bird did.

Yet there's millions of dollars being thrown into these publications to keep them on life support, not even advertising is working now. They're all literal money pits of piss, shit, and ink. Like they already blew their legs off with their credibility so nothing you read is actually informative and instead of just letting them go under since they're no longer serving the initial purpose to inform people, they're being kept around like how monkeys and apes keep their dead corpses of their dead monkey babies around.

 

[Xarpho]

Thread is good and deserves a bump and a reply.

Having subscribed to a number of print publications back in the day and watching them decline in real time, I pose this question--is print media dying because it's inferior, or it is inferior BECAUSE it's dying? Newspapers suffer the hardest from this--even bigger-market newspapers are awfully thin when the advertisements are removed, and just consist of a few articles regurgitated from AP, a few columnists, sports, classifieds, and an ever-dwindling comics section.

There's hardly any local news, opening or closing of stores and restaurants, nothing to reflect the community except the occasional puff piece, and paid articles.

In the old days, there would be gossip about your neighbors, columns of almost every mainstream interest, and a spread of what to see, do, and eat in the city.

Even magazines have seen a massive decline. I jumped on Nintendo Power shortly after their 2005 redesign and watched as the magazine got worse and worse, cutting or dropping the regular features and becoming mostly ads (besides the whole "video game magazines is basically ads" part).

It's not like the Internet is much better, newspaper websites practically require an ad-blocker and script-blocker, and even then they'll still try to block the article you're reading.