Most of the local newspapers in my area stopped publishing and were forced to go online, so a number of people had their subscriptions stopped for them.
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Most of the local newspapers in my area stopped publishing and were forced to go online, so a number of people had their subscriptions stopped for them.
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
….because they didn’t have enough subscribers to justify printing papers.
Absolutely. And unfortunately, the ones who did maintain subscriptions and enjoyed the actual paper, paid the price. Heck, the local newspaper wasn’t just for local news, the adverts for sales and coupons for saving stuff were worth it.
I have a clipping of the East Valley Tribune where we were sending Mike and his buddies a bunch of stuff for their camping trip to Iraq several years ago. They actually sent a reporter and a cameraman by the house, spoke to us for several hours and wrote a really nice story afterward.
It's sad because that local, factual, human interest story would have never gotten traction today because reporters like him are working at Chipotle and that photographer is probably changing tires somewhere while the news aggregators make all the loot.
That was a fine article they did, and some really good local interest reporting on a story that had worldwide effect.
CFI A&P
Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
That's because it is a technical area, and obtaining technical knowledge would require technical advisors which cost money. They have the revenue from your click without a tech advisor, so why would they add that expense and cut into their margins? "You get what you pay for."
I have friends in "media", as in real journalists, on air personalities for legitimate networks not just bloggers and TikTok'rs. Over the years they've approached me many times, sometimes I have obliged, others I declined. Most recently I was contacted about the Boeing-Portland event, but declined that one too.
///AMG
Well-Known Member
This is of course what ultimately happened, but it is still a bummer. My folks are still subscribers to the print version of my hometown newspaper. I am not, since I haven't lived there for 23 years. And of course there wasn't internet news back then really, so don't blame me
Kingairer
'Tiger Team' Member
Newspapers need to rebrand as a hot new subscription based service that does news specific to your needs in your area!!
///AMG
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In more complete media nonsense garbage, I present the dumbest thing I've read all day:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/busi...ge-planes-after-boeing-breaks-down/index.html
"CNN - Secretary of State Antony Blinken was forced to change planes to return to Washington from Davos after his plane suffered what the traveling press was told was a critical failure related to an oxygen leak.
Blinken and the traveling party boarded the modified Boeing 737 jet in Zurich on Wednesday after a day and a half of meetings at the global summit in Davos.
The plane suffered the issue after boarding and the party was forced to deplane, according to traveling press.
A new, smaller aircraft was being sent for Blinken, and many in the traveling party will now be returning to Washington commercially, according to the traveling press.
This is just the latest blow to Boeing’s once stellar, now badly tarnished reputation. On Jan. 5 an Alaska Airlines jet had a door plug blow out shortly after takeoff when the plane was at 16,000 feet, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the jet."
Uhhhh what? So there was something wrong with the airplane and they needed to hop into a spare? This happens exactly how many times every day since the beginning of airplanes? But my favorite part is them trying to somehow tie this into the door incident.....bolded at the bottom. This is a blow to Boeing? I suppose maybe one manufactured by idiots in the media, if it is believed by enough other idiots who don't understand airplanes. In short, YGBFSM
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/busi...ge-planes-after-boeing-breaks-down/index.html
"CNN - Secretary of State Antony Blinken was forced to change planes to return to Washington from Davos after his plane suffered what the traveling press was told was a critical failure related to an oxygen leak.
Blinken and the traveling party boarded the modified Boeing 737 jet in Zurich on Wednesday after a day and a half of meetings at the global summit in Davos.
The plane suffered the issue after boarding and the party was forced to deplane, according to traveling press.
A new, smaller aircraft was being sent for Blinken, and many in the traveling party will now be returning to Washington commercially, according to the traveling press.
This is just the latest blow to Boeing’s once stellar, now badly tarnished reputation. On Jan. 5 an Alaska Airlines jet had a door plug blow out shortly after takeoff when the plane was at 16,000 feet, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the jet."
Uhhhh what? So there was something wrong with the airplane and they needed to hop into a spare? This happens exactly how many times every day since the beginning of airplanes? But my favorite part is them trying to somehow tie this into the door incident.....bolded at the bottom. This is a blow to Boeing? I suppose maybe one manufactured by idiots in the media, if it is believed by enough other idiots who don't understand airplanes. In short, YGBFSM
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Yup.
I’m still trying to figure out two airplanes making contact at ORD and if it could be a Boeing design flaw.
I’m still trying to figure out two airplanes making contact at ORD and if it could be a Boeing design flaw.
alaskadrifter
Landing gear operator
Minuteman
I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING!
Blinken Stranded After Boeing 737 Breaks Down on Davos Trip
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was unable to fly home from Davos as scheduled on Wednesday due to a critical malfunction with his aircraft.
www.bloomberg.com
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Currently investigating if the issue was a “Boeing design flaw.”
knot4u
Repeat Offender
The LA Times is in serious trouble. I used to have it delivered to my house on Sundays. I'd start a pot of coffee, put on some slippers and retrieve it at the end of the driveway. Part of that was the wife wanting all the coupons and what not, and part of it was me wanting to read the cartoon page along with all of the other important news. I still have the 7 foot something poster from the sports section when Shaq came to LA. The left is eating its own, the company can't make money anymore because they've gone full left, and their employees (that formed a union) are blaming their employer when the whole thing is crumbling. Time is a great filter for nonsense. The LA Times has been a joke for a couple of decades around here and it's swirling pretty close to the drain currently. It sucks because it used to be a newspaper, not propaganda. It's 2024, are you ready?
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Now imagine what else the media bloviates, gets wrong, dramatizes.
Virus. Trump. MAGA. Abortion. Etc.
I’m half kidding about those. But seriously, you and I know aviation since it is our expertise field. And we know how they get so much wrong in the media about aviation. If they get this much wrong, what about all the other fields that we aren’t experts in, that they also get wrong? Medicine. Politics. Etc.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
I thought we don’t kink shame around here?
I. DEMAND. REFUND.
IMMA SUE YOU I KNOW 3 LAWYERS IN ARIZONA
First, the demand letter in hard copy form, notorized and sent certified mail.
Do not write anything about suing me on the internet bedside it gives me an unfair advantage.
Make sure you clearly explain your grievance, damage it is doing to you and your interests, how to rectify and a period of time for said adjustments to be made until you are “forced” to move to the next, unstated, steps.
I’ve had to walk a lot of people through this over the years. My mailbox remained empty.
The second you say “Amma SOOO” I can prepare myself for the cat and mouse game of avoiding your process server.
Do not write anything about suing me on the internet bedside it gives me an unfair advantage.
Make sure you clearly explain your grievance, damage it is doing to you and your interests, how to rectify and a period of time for said adjustments to be made until you are “forced” to move to the next, unstated, steps.
I’ve had to walk a lot of people through this over the years. My mailbox remained empty.
The second you say “Amma SOOO” I can prepare myself for the cat and mouse game of avoiding your process server.