I saw this on the Interwebs the other day — I think Reddit. Take a look.
I agree with the sentiments, but can we please update it to the INTERNET?
Still blaming Newspapers?
Category Archives: newspapers
Wow, look at the size of that ‘tablet’
From July 7, 1964 — When Newspaper daily circulation in the US was 60.4 million and Sunday circulation was 48.3 million
Yes, in the near future, if we’re not there already, we’ll need to explain to the children those long ago images were not giant iPads or phones, but were this thing called Newspapers.
Press: Recommended TV series
I’m feeling lazy, so I’ll let ChatGPT write this:
“In the gritty trenches of the newspaper world, Press unfurls its narrative, echoing the echoes of yesteryears marred by hacking scandals, navigating the perilous waters of the digital age, and contending with the relentless pulse of the 24-hour news cycle.
Nestled within the hustle and bustle of the British newspaper industry, Press invites viewers into a world where personal lives and professional quandaries dance in perpetual tango.
The series unfolds the intricate tales of these ink-stained warriors, juggling the intricate balance between the daily grind and the pursuit of integrity, all beneath the looming shadow of an industry in flux and the unyielding pressure of a 24-hour global news cycle.
In the spirit of Ernie Pyle, Press paints a vivid portrait of lives at the crossroads of ambition and authenticity, capturing the essence of a profession grappling with the tumultuous winds of change.“
NOTE: Ernie Pyle is mentioned because I included that in the ChatGPT prompt.
First Class Newspaper
First class seating on a recent Delta flight out of Atlanta on route to Colorado — Nice to see some people still read the local newspaper (The Atlanta Journal0Constitution).
Fred Hiatt, Washington Post editorial page editor, dies at 66
A great loss to The Washington Post and to the Newspaper community.
Mr. Hiatt was one of Washington’s most authoritative and influential opinion-makers. For two decades, he either wrote or edited nearly every unsigned editorial published by The Post — more than 1,000 a year — and edited the opinion columns published on the paper’s op-ed page and website. He also wrote a column and was a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing.
The washington post
Fictional wages
If you haven’t watched SYFY’s Resident Alien you should. It’s a funny show about an alien (from space) who crash lands on Earth while on a mission to destroy humans, and then must assimilate into the human town.
In S1 E7 • The Green Glow, said alien looks for a new job after being fired as the town doctor. Of course he picks up, what I assume is the local Newspaper and turns to the want ads.
In previous episodes they mentioned the town population was only 5,000 and it’s in a remote location. To be generous, I’ll bump that population up to 7,000 for those folks who don’t live in town. Maybe, just maybe the circulation would be 3,000 — on a good day.
Look at the math in the ad… them’s definitely Big City pricing. Not wages to throw a rural, remote small-town probably weekly newspaper. And ”each route pays,“ implies that there is more than one route.
Oh, well. It is fictional TV, right?
39 Silver Screen pictures about Newspapers
Plenty of movies about Newspapers have been made. Either set at Newspaper offices or have Newspaper reporters, editors and photographers as the main characters. Here are nearly 40 of them. OK, I’ll admit I looked real hard for another picture to round it out to 40, but couldn’t think of one. Anyone? Anyone?
Descriptions and posters are from IMDB. These are not listed by ranking, but are listed alphabetically.
-30- (1959)
A managing editor of a LA newspaper must put together headlines for the next day in a way that’ll attract the potential readers, deal with hectic going-ons at the workplace and have a serious talk with his wife about her wish to adopt.
Stars: Jack Webb, William Conrad, David Nelson
Absence of Malice (1981)
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on a suspected racketeer. He has an iron-clad alibi.
Stars: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban
Ace in the Hole (1951)
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur
The Adventurous Blonde (1937)
After rival reporters, jealous of Torchy’s success, conspire to fake the murder of an actor in order to embarrass her, he ends up being strangled. There were a series of these “Torchy” pictures filmed and you’ll see another one toward the end of the list.
Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Anne Nagel
All the President’s Men (1976)
“The Washington Post” reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden
Between the Lines (1977)
Story of an underground newspaper in Boston about to be taken over by big business.
Stars: John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum
Blessed Event (1932)
Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel.
Stars: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Dick Powell
Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945)
Chapter 1 of this serial finds Daily Flash newspaper reporter Brenda Starr assigned to cover a fire in an old house where they discover a wounded gangster suspected of stealing a quarter-million dollar payroll.
Stars: Joan Woodbury, Kane Richmond, Ernie Adams
Brenda Starr (1989)
A struggling comic book artist who draws the “Brenda Starr” strip decides to draw himself into it after Brenda comes to life and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, and leaves the strip.
Stars: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Tony Peck
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a ten year old murder case to help free a man wrongly convicted of killing a cop.
Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb
Chicago Deadline (1949)
On Chicago’s South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
Stars: Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc
Citizen Kane (1941)
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; “Rosebud.”
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore
Continental Divide (1981)
A hard-nosed Chicago Mike Roykoesque columnist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher. Newsroom interiors were shot at the old Chicago Sun-Times Building on Wabash Avenue.
Stars: John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield
Deadline USA (1952)
With his newspaper about to be sold, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson tries to complete an exposé on gangster Rienzi.
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter
Fletch (1985)
Irwin M. “Fletch” Fletcher is a newspaper reporter being offered a large sum to off a cancerous millionaire, but is on the run, risking his job and finding clues when it’s clear the man is healthy.
Stars: Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
The Front Page (1931)
An investigative reporter sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime when an accused murderer escapes hanging.
Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O’Brien, Mary Brian
The Front Page (1948)
Earl Williams is due to be hanged tomorrow, and he’s innocent. When Earl escapes from his cell, journalist Hildy Johnson seems likely to land the scoop of the century – but all he wants is to leave town.
Stars: Sidney James, Henry Gilbert, Bill Harding
The Front Page (1974)
As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence.
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
Luther Heggs aspires to be a reporter for his small town newspaper, the Rachel Courier Express. He gets his big break when the editor asks him to spend the night at the Simmons mansion that 20 years before was the site of a now famous murder-suicide.
Stars: Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond
The Girl on the Front Page (1936)
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
Stars: Edmund Lowe, Gloria Stuart, Reginald Owen
His Girl Friday (1940)
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. Remake of the Chicago newspaper classic The Front Page.
Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
I.F. Stone’s Weekly (1973)
A political biography of I.F. Stone that details his approach to the news, his working habits and some of his exposés of government treachery that made his one-man newspaper, I.F. Stone’s Weekly, important.
Stars: I.F. Stone, Tom Wicker
It Happens Every Thursday (1953)
A New York couple takes over a small town newspaper. Probably the only film made about a community weekly.
Stars: Loretta Young, John Forsythe, Frank McHugh
Meet John Doe (1941)
As a parting shot, fired reporter prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate John Doe.” Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it’s worth,
Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
Newsies (1992)
A musical based on the New York City newsboy strike of 1899. When young newspaper sellers are exploited beyond reason by their bosses they set out to enact change and are met by the ruthlessness of big business.
Stars: Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Robert Duvall
Page One: Inside the New York Times Documentary (2011)
Unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.
Stars: David Carr, Sarah Ellison, Larry Ingrassia
The Paper (1994)
New York City tabloid editor Henry’s faced with tough decisions while he faces several serious life challenges, and a tempting job offer.
Stars: Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall
The Parallax View (1974)
An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator’s assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world’s headlines.
Stars: Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels
Park Row (1952)
The Globe is a small, but visionary newspaper started by Phineas Mitchell, an editor recently fired by The Star. The two newspapers become enemies, and the Star’s ruthless heiress Charity Hackett decides to eliminate the competition.
Stars: Gene Evans, Mary Welch, Bela Kovacs
The Post (2017)
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country’s first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government.
Stars: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson
Scandal Sheet (1952)
The surly editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself.
Stars: John Derek, Donna Reed, Broderick Crawford
Shattered Glass (2003)
The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.
Stars: Hayden Christensen, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Zahn
Shock Corridor (1963)
Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.
Stars: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans
Spotlight (2015)
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams
Superman (1978)
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where Clark Kent (the patron saint of reporters) grows up to become a Newspaper reporter at The Daily Planet, and his adoptive home’s first and greatest superhero.
Stars: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Powerful but unethical Broadway gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister’s romance with a jazz musician.
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
Teacher’s Pet (1958)
A hard-nosed newspaper editor poses as a night school student in order to woo a journalism teacher who cannot stand him.
Stars: Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young
Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)
Determined to scoop the other newspapers, reporter Torchy Blane convinces her boyfriend, police lieutenant Steve McBride, that the only way the perpetrator of a recent bank robbery could fence the stolen money is to exchange it in Panama.
Stars: Lola Lane, Paul Kelly, Tom Kennedy
Zodiac (2007)
In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo
And now for something completely different
Way back when, probably in the mid ’80s I had a poster in my cubicle of a list of funny alternative names for newspapers. Of course they are all disparaging, but then again Newspaper people (especially copy editors) have a strange sense of humor.
The list was compiled by the late Charlie Stough, who ran the Burned Out Newspapercreatures Guild (BONG) and published an online newsletter, the BONG Bull UP UNTIL 2007.
Charlie died in 2011. Here’s a bit of his death notice:
STOUGH III, Charles “Charley” Senour a well-known writer and author, artist, and self-described “chief copyboy,” died Nov. 22 at Miami Valley Hospital as a result of complications from cancer treatment. He was 67.
Mr. Stough retired in 2001 from the Dayton Daily News after 28 years, where he worked primarily as a copy editor. In the 1970s and ’80s, he compiled and edited the popular Dayton Daily Newsletter column, a daily collection of interesting and offbeat news items filtered through Mr. Stough’s trademark wit, honed from years of newspapering in small newspapers out West.
OBIT | TRIBUTE
Sadly many of these have been long shuttered.
| 1. Arizona Repulsive |
| 2. Aurora Be Confused |
| 3. Austin American Real Estatesman |
| 4. Aviation Leak and Space Mythology |
| 5. Bangor Daily Snooze |
| 6. Bloomington Horrible-Terrible |
| 7. Boston Hairball |
| 8. Boulder Daily Chimera |
| 9. Bryan-College Station Buzzard |
| 10. Carbondale South Illusion |
| 11. Charleston daily Snail |
| 12. Charlotte Disturber |
| 13. Charlotte Regress |
| 14. Chattanooga News-free Press |
| 15. Chesterton Ribtoon |
| 16. Cincinnati Conspirer |
| 17. Columbia Manurian |
| 18. Columbus Distort |
| 19. Cornwall Standard Freeloader |
| 20. Dallas Morning Snoose |
| 21. Dayton Barely News |
| 22. Dover-New Philadelphis Times-Distorter |
| 23. Fitchburg-Leominster Emptyprize |
| 24. Flororida Aggravator |
| 25. For Worth Startlegram |
| 26. Fort Wayne News Senile |
| 27. Gay Bimbos |
| 28. Halifax Chronically Horrid |
| 29. Host Springs Senile Record |
| 30. Houston Pest |
| 31. Huntington Herald Disgrace |
| 32. Kent Wretched Courier |
| 33. Kingston Substandar |
| 34. Laramie Daily Boomerag |
| 35. Las Vegas Son |
| 36. Louisville Curious Jumble |
| 37. Madison Mad Medd |
| 38. Manhatten Turkey |
| 39. McPaper |
| 40. Miami Horrid |
| 41. Michigan State University Stale News |
| 42. Mis-Quote Week |
| 43. Mitchell Daily Repulsive |
| 44. Modesto Bumble |
| 45. New Haven Ray |
| 46. New Orleans Times Picka-Your-Nose |
| 47. Newsdaze |
| 48. North Carolina State U. Tackynician |
| 49. Oceanside BlindCitizen |
| 50. Ohio State University Latrine |
| 51. Omaha Weird Harold |
| 52. Orlando Slantinel |
| 53. Owen Sound Stun Crims |
| 54. Penn State Daily Caligula |
| 55. Philadelphia Inky |
| 56. Philadelphia Urninal |
| 57. Phoenix Guess-At-It |
| 58. Pilfered Daily News |
| 59. Placerville Mountain Democrap |
| 60. Raleigh News Absurder |
| 61. Redding Wretched Flashlight |
| 62. Remo Gannett-Urinal |
| 63. Rice University Rice Thrasher |
| 64. Rochester Compost-Bulletin |
| 65. Rochester Demagogue and Comical |
| 66. Sacramento Bumble |
| 67. San Antonio Excuse-For-news |
| 68. San Diego Onion |
| 69. San Fransisco Comical |
| 70. San Jose Murky News |
| 71. Santa Barbara News-Supress |
| 72. Santa Monica Evening Outrage |
| 73. Saskatoon Star Kleenex |
| 74. Scottsdale Regress |
| 75. Seattle Slimes |
| 76. Sierra Vista Horrible Disgrace |
| 77. Sioux Fall Argus Liar |
| 78. South By Brays |
| 79. Souther Methodiest University Daily Com Post |
| 80. Southern Illinois U. Daily Erection |
| 81. Springfield Nuisance |
| 82. The Athen Mess |
| 83. The Atlanta Urinal & Constipation |
| 84. THe Baltimore Stun |
| 85. The Boston Glob |
| 86. The Canton Suppository |
| 87. The Euphoria Gazelle |
| 88. The Graunuad |
| 89. The Green Bay Press-Gannett |
| 90. The Houston Chronic |
| 91. The Indescribablyboring |
| 92. The Montgomery Agonizer |
| 93. The New York Crimes |
| 94. The Newsof the Scres |
| 95. The Orilla Racket and Crimes |
| 96. The Portland Boregonian |
| 97. The Santa Rosa Depressed Democrat |
| 98. The St. George Daily Rectum |
| 99. The St. Louise Post Disgrace |
| 100. The Strat & Gripes |
| 101. The Toledo Bland |
| 102. The York isgrace |
| 103. The York Sunday Snooze |
| 104. The Youngstown Fornicator |
| 105. Toronto Grop and Flail |
| 106. Toronto Sin |
| 107. University of Florida Independent |
| 108. University of Illinois Daily Illiterate |
| 109. University of Maryland Dime-A-Stack |
| 110. University of North Carolina Daily Tar Hole |
| 111. Useless News & World Distort |
| 112. Vermillion Pain talk |
| 113. Vicious Mess |
| 114. Virgina Tech Dependent |
| 115. Waco Tribulation Herald |
| 116. Washington Pest |
| 117. West Chester Daily Lack of News |
| 118. West Lebanon Valley Snooze |
| 119. Willamantic Daily Miracle |
| 120. Worcester Dullagram |
| 121. York Daily Wreckage |
COVID-19: Kicked to the curb
Alden Global Capital (hedge fund based in Manhattan, New York City) is not very kind to Newspapers.
Alden … has become the grim reaper of American newspapers
THE HEDGE FUND VAMPIRE THAT BLEEDS NEWSPAPERS DRY …
Ajc.com slaps itself
I saw this slang buried in a story on ajc.com this morning
Wow. That edition is your own product!
Seriously AJC.com? Calling your print product “dead-tree” is not being cute, hip, cool, dope, lit, Gucci or whatever the kids say these days.
“Dead-tree edition” is a derogatory term that probably is appropriate for a small, scrappy website to use to make fun of the established, long-time stodgy old Newspaper. AMIRITE????
The term is an intentionally harsh phrase that aims to present hard-copy materials as being unfriendly for the environment.
Techopedia
Big trade secret here …. no, not really, but in case you have not guessed, the people at ajc.com are the same people at the PRINT edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
This is sort of like slapping yourself in the face for laughs!
Wanna Buy a Paper, Mister? 