Adapt to New Technology or Die 196
An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that in a recent speech to fellow stationers and newspaper makers, Rupert Murdoch has stated that the 'newspaper industry needs to embrace the technological revolution of the Internet, MP3 players, laptops and mobile phones or face extinction.'"
Re:Analog data distribution is dead... (Score:1, Funny)
BLEA (Score:2, Funny)
Re:BLEA (Score:5, Funny)
Paper Delivery (Score:5, Funny)
Must be past the end of the Paper Boy Era.
When I was in my late teens I inherited my older brother's paper route. It was somewhere about 65 customers. As this was my main source of income I took a particularly aggressive view towards growing and maintaining the route. In 3.3 years I had it up to 150+ customers, much to the annoyance of paper boys of neighbouring routes. My parents always sent me out with our paper, just in case I saw someone moving into a new house -- I'd introduce myself and give them the paper free and ask if I could sign them up. I was breaking my back, but I was also raking in some decent cash for a highschool kid. I made certain papers weren't left in wet or could be blown away or anything. When I retired and left for college the newspaper said it was too large a route for any one carrier and split it.
Now people drive past and chuck papers in the general vicinity of doors. I know what you mean.
Dial-up suits me fine (Score:3, Funny)
[no carrier]
Re:BLEA (Score:5, Funny)
Adapt to new spelling or die!
(Sorry)
Re:And Then (Score:3, Funny)
What about new Volkswagens [boreme.com]?
Re:Analog data distribution is dead... (Score:5, Funny)
Interesting. I find that most of the online newspapers I read only make a few key headline articles available, not the entire content.
Besides, I hate dragging a 19" monitor with me to lunch, and people keep tripping on the cables... :)
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Rubert Murdoch (Score:3, Funny)
"You Decide" (Score:3, Funny)
* Bold, primary colors to inform Americans how to feel about "the issues"
* Big, moving, symbolic images and lines
* Stirring music
The real problem is that newspapers are still caught up in that "facts" fad..which totally puts their necks out on the line. What if they get a fact wrong? That would prove them "uncredible" - instead, what they should be doing is telling people what to think about topics in a way that is not legally binding!
Presenting facts and statistics is too complicated for the modern enlightened viewer. They need graphics!!
Oh, please... (Score:2, Funny)
With respect: Spoken like someone who probably never ventured far from suburbia--who only *thinks* he knows what "flyover country" is like.
Technology is embraced with open arms by "rural people" my friend. Not only do they all have 24/7 telephones, they were early-adopters of satellite television and broadband internet (over their satellite dishes, a la "Starband").
And H*ll, most of 'em even have 'lectricity and wear SHOES, if you can believe it.
Sheesh.
Re:I was about to call bullshit (Score:2, Funny)
Actually, that should be "... how I wish there were a...." It's the hypothetical subjunctive.
Look at it this way: if they ever implement such a tag, you'll have someone on whom to test it (whew! I almost ended my sentence with a preposition!).