Man buys a newspaper at the same newstand every day, glances at front page, throws it straight out.
An old joke
Day after day after day.
Eventually, the news seller asks, “Why do you do that?”
The man answers, “I’m just checking for an obituary.”
“But obituaries aren’t on the front page.”
‘When the sonofabitch I’m looking for dies, it will be.”
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.
Breaking ground for US Newspapers: Mugshot of a former POTUS! Surprisingly, the mugshot was released too late to meet their deadlines (I guess)…. We’ll have to see how they run the second-day story on Saturday.
Kudos to the Times-Dispatch for working in JAIL in the hedline.
As always, Front Page are from my good friends at the Newspapers and The Freedom Forum
The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
U.S. Flag Code §8. Respect for flag
William Loeb was president and publisher of the Union Leader from 1946 to his death in 1981.
The stepdaughter’s story was printed in the Union Leader on May 1.
The Newspaper also ran an editorial.
Sometimes, holding the powerful to account means telling the stories of those hurt by them. Even if the powerful individual has been dead for decades, even if the powerful individual had an outsized role in the history of New Hampshire or, indeed, in the history of this newspaper.
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We know now that William Loeb is not a man to be celebrated. We have removed his name from the masthead of this newspaper and from other commemorations. We thank our readers and advertisers for understanding that some stories need to be told. We thank the members of the Loeb family who courageously came forward with this dark portion of their family history.
An Editorial: To our readers
This was pretty much me back in the late ’60s… only a lot younger. Photo is probably from the ’50s, but I had the same type-of rig delivering The Denver Post to civilians at Fort Carson, Colo., when I was 9 years old.
For some reason, this memory popped into my head over the weekend: Back in the day, the Denver Post had their carriers do the collections. This was a door-to-door process. Knock on the door, let the folks who answered know they owned for the last month’s Newspapers, collect the cash (no credit cards), make change.. on to the next door.
Delivering to the home on the post was fairly easy as the density of the housing was basically long rows of townhouses.
The thing I recalled is that I was on my collections rounds one day and the woman told me to come back next week. Nothing strange there as a lot of people did this. However, when I can back the next week. Their unit was cleaned out. I was stiffed! Probably around $5 for the month, but it came out of my pocket.
This piece of scum knew they were moving and would be gone within the week. Can you imagine going out of your way to stiff the local Paperboy? I hope the movers broke their dishes and lost stuff!!!
To show you how traumatic this was for me, after more than 50 years I can still remember when the scum lived:
This kind of thing happens everyday. This is just an startling example of pushing out a one-sized solution for all.
These are MediaNews Group Newspapers in California. MNG is owned by Alden Global Capital, the famed Newspaper killing hedge fund.
Here’s a statement from the corporate site:
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP – DELIVERING EXCLUSIVE LOCAL CONTENT IN MARKETS THAT MATTER
http://www.socalnewsgroup.com/
Well, I guess these markets don’t matter. What a shame.
Front Pages, as always, are copyrighted by their individual Newspapers. The Freedom Forum is now hosting Front Pages every day.
Disgusting. Really disgusting. Trump, not Al.
This GOP yahoo in the Georgia statehouse has proposed some pretty heinous anti-press legislation. Let’s take a dive into that cesspool:
If approved, the bill would also mandate that anyone interviewed by the media would be able to request and receive copies of photographs and audio and video recordings taken by reporters and photographers.
AJC 04/03/2019
Such copies would have to be provided free of cost, even though state and local governments are allowed to charge the public for copies of any documents they provide.
If a media outlet refuses to provide the copies, under the bill it would be subject to a lawsuit and a civil penalty.
Can you believe that crap? It gets worse. Apparently he wants an “independent” board, to appoint members and create “canons of ethics,” issue advisory opinions, develop voluntary accreditation, set up a system for investigating complaints and sanctioning accredited violators of such canons.
Read more here.
UPDATE: Here’s a story from today’s (4/4) Daily Kos
The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) joined by 15 other press groups and media organizations, including the Associated Press, Gannett, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, sent a letter to the tour company of Ariana Grande, objecting to a photography agreement that requires photographers who are covering her concerts to transfer their copyright to their concert images to Grande’s tour company and then requires advanced written permission from the performer in order to use those same images for journalists purposes.
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