36 Replies to “The World Still Has Too Many Reporters”

  3. Anthony seems somewhat preoccupied with e-books. Fetishly so.
    I have a theory on that.
    I postulate that those who obsess over connectivity and cyber savvy, equate the latest technology with (their) superior intelligence.
    Because the newest and hippest is always the smrtest.

  5. Tony Jenkins is a reporter? What was he attempting to reporting, or was it a training exercise for Ottawa bureau chief?

  7. I bought a Sob and Fail last month but it was because I had to wait a really long time at the doctor’s office and all the glossy pamphlets about various medical problems: Constipation! Lung Cancer! Osteoarthritis! Stroke! with pictures of beaming happy people on the front just seemed off somehow.
    I made the wrong choice.
    “A Mangled Boil” is an anagram for “Globe and Mail”.

  13. Newspapers – the paper part anyway – are as dead as Oldsmobile. In fact the vast majority of newspaper subscribers are probably the last first owners of Oldsmobiles. (And they will propably use the classifieds to sell them when they are done. If they don’t, the beneficiaries of their estates will use Kijiji or craigslist.) 
     
    How do I know that newspapers are doomed – currently in a zombie-like state – but doomed nonetheless?
     
    I recently attended a convention in San Francisco held by a software mega-corp (salesforce).  At the conference were 30,000 paying attendees, about 4,000 Of the corp’s employees and about the same number of external affiliates. The attendees were mostly high level executives from across the globe – the kind of people who were a newspaper’s core demographic not too long ago.
     
    Well, during the three and a half days when I and four others that formed my group were a part of this enormous throng that included four events where essentially everyone was in attendance, we did not see a single newspaper. And we were actively looking almost from the very start. 
     
    Newspapers have not been abandoned by this demographic. They are forgotten.
     
    Content organizations will be with us and be necessary for many more years to come. Newspapers are about as relevant today as distributor caps and rotors.

  15. Syncro:
    I used to gap the points on my beetle using the flap of a matchbook. Those were the days…

  18. You know it’s just amazing! The first thing that crossed my mind this morning when I got up was, “I wonder what Hayley Wickenhieser’s reading habits are, and jeez, I wonder what her views on e-books are?”
    An AMAZING coinky dink!

  20. “I read parts of a lot of books”. Tired of that twaddle? Well, lets see, there’s Justin Trudeau on skating, Maher Arar on Wikileaks, Walt Wingfield on GM foods.
    How about “Reporter’s World” because its a world nobody else recognizes.

  21. I remember when the Globe changed. I have been a newspaper addict since I was a young boy. I used to deliver the Globe and read it every day, as a 12 year old. It was my paper of record until I started working as a stock broker (short lived career), at which point I switched to the Financial Post. When the Financial Post morphed into the National Post, the Globe decided that the Star was their competition and dumbed themselves down to compete with the Star. In those days I used to read every paper. I watched this happen and noted it at the time. I have subscribed to the National Post since day one. The only reason I still do is that I can read it at lunch time at work. If I am not at work it sits around unread unless I do the crossword – and it isn’t a particularly good crossword.

  22. i never ever BOUGHT a mop and pail but i’d filch it’s cryptic crossword at every opportunity…
    was created by alan richardson if i remember…he fashioned very very good cryptic puzzles…they were so good i NEVER finished one completely.

  27. “news papers could have been of some use in their decline if someone had not invented toilet paper
    Posted by: GYM at February 13, 2011 12:18 PM ”
    “Old and Frail” New articles that will never be written about:
    “Newspaper ink linked to rectal cancer”

  28. “news papers could have been of some use in their decline if someone had not invented toilet paper
    Posted by: GYM at February 13, 2011 12:18 PM ”
    “Old and Frail” New articles that will never be written about:
    “Newspaper ink linked to rectal cancer”

  29. *
    “glacierman says… ‘Newspaper ink linked to rectal
    cancer'”
    oh my gawd… stop, stop… i think… i’ve got a hernia.
    *

  31. In my view, the Globe and Mail stopped being a legitimate source of news when it published two columns (Margaret Wente and Jeffrey Simpson) about Barack Obama’s win of the Presidency BEFORE most Americans had voted. Midnight, on the eve of the 2008 election. They weren’t predicting the outcome; they were reporting the outcome BEFORE it had happened.
    Poll numbers are not votes.

  32. How else could the certified leftie loons like Iggula, Justin, Jack, Dion Jean etc ever get any traction if not for the libsuk Globe, Star Bourque CBC CTV etc. Normal people who understand business look at these hyper-ventilating idiots like Travers Delacourt Wente and old Homely Simpson etal, with sympathy that they are so detached from reality and think their propped up fools have anything to offer.

  33. So things are thought about, some things are thought about and need to be said…thanks Ken!

  34. Newspaper’s are finished and so are the provinces in this country who produce newsprint from pulp and paper. Since this is the last major employer NFLD has left, we can expect the next generation to be forced to leave home as well.

  35. Would the last one out of Newfoundland please turn off the lights! Thanks for that!
    By the way, how are things in Fort Mac?

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