Comments on: Dead Tree Must Live http://fishingjones.com/2008/07/16/dead-tree-must-live/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:47:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Matt http://fishingjones.com/2008/07/16/dead-tree-must-live/#comment-1401 Matt Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:09:14 +0000 http://fishingjones.wordpress.com/?p=362#comment-1401 Great post Pete. I think the need/demand for a local newspaperwill always be there, though I don't know how they'll fund it -- print ads are drying up. Maybe raise the price of the paper? Great post Pete. I think the need/demand for a local newspaperwill always be there, though I don’t know how they’ll fund it — print ads are drying up. Maybe raise the price of the paper?

]]> By: Murdock http://fishingjones.com/2008/07/16/dead-tree-must-live/#comment-1383 Murdock Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:23:13 +0000 http://fishingjones.wordpress.com/?p=362#comment-1383 I'll agree with you Pete. From the point of view of a guy who spent his youth as a DJ on a small town AM radio station, I was making the same arguments about that media 15 years ago. All the cool kids only listened to FM...until they grew up and wanted to know who died over night. (I used to read the obituaries every sunday morning at 8:00 AM - and the guy who owned the station still says I did it best.) Mind you this is pre-ebay and if you wanted to sell anything you had to either take out a classified ad, park it in your yard, or send an item in to our stations "swap shop". As for newspapers and magazines I have to say lugging a laptop into the baño to read is a tough sell for me not to mention, you will get some weird looks. I’ll agree with you Pete. From the point of view of a guy who spent his youth as a DJ on a small town AM radio station, I was making the same arguments about that media 15 years ago. All the cool kids only listened to FM…until they grew up and wanted to know who died over night. (I used to read the obituaries every sunday morning at 8:00 AM – and the guy who owned the station still says I did it best.)

Mind you this is pre-ebay and if you wanted to sell anything you had to either take out a classified ad, park it in your yard, or send an item in to our stations “swap shop”.

As for newspapers and magazines I have to say lugging a laptop into the baño to read is a tough sell for me not to mention, you will get some weird looks.

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