The jig is up and the Oregonian is now circling the bowl and about to float out to sea. They’re moving out of their half empty building, limiting paper delivery before discontinuing all together in the near future and will charge to use their website ($5/week in a special website for current subscribers). And with all the TV news stations hosting free sites, how do they expect this to sustain itself? All this before they close for good. And with good reason. I don’t know if you read the Oregonian anymore but typos and other misspelled words are common where they never used to exist. The reporters are of generally low quality and pretty much all they do are meaningless interviews. Substantially better and more in-depth information is available on various blogs and websites (note I am NOT saying on S2- Sorry, Denny). So sayonara, Oregonian. You were really never much of a newspaper to begin with.
Probably why Quick and Canzano love to stir shit up. They're trying to save The Oregonian by making controversy to gain readership. People already know they're full of ish, though.
Call me old fashion . . . but I enjoy opening up a local newspaper in the morning and flipping through it. I will probably be one of the few, but will miss the Oregonian if it goes away.
I'm one of the few, too. Goes with being from a time when the only way to check scores in the morning was to open the Sports section.
I won't miss it a bit. Plus, getting the news/sports on my phone is much more environmentally friendly.
Things started going south when papyrus got too expensive. I miss my morning scroll while squatting over the ditch.
Newspapers haven't found a way to stay relevant in a technological age. They'll go the way of the buggy whip.
But they haven't found a way to charge for it. They're getting undercut by online news services and their editorial content can't break even.
That's why they somehow need to reinvent themselves. With the advent of Yahoo and others, perhaps that's a lot easier said than done, though.
