50 Reasons Why Newspapers SUCK

Here are 50 reasons why newspapers SUCK. In specific daily newspapers and corporately owned newspapers. Read this list, then add your own thoughts below. When you start to read the list your gonna laugh cause this stuff is funny but true!

How long is it going to take before we wake up. Stop the presses and think. It’s 2009 Now.. maybe by 2011 they will all be out of business and everything will be online and we won’t have to talk about this anymore.

Anyhow.. have fun and enjoy.

50 Reasons Why Newspapers SUCK:

1. By the time they are printed they are out of date
2. If I want to see the news I go to google.com/news
3. If I want to see the weather I look out the window or check my iphone
4. Who has time to read? I get 200+ emails a day and have ADHD.
5. Feedburner works great
6. None of my friends subscribe
7. Newspapers are NOT COOL – YouTube Is!
8. Don’t want to get my hands dirty
9. Can’t use a mouse to click on the ads
10. No Hyperlinks on the page
11. Can’t I Read More >>
12. Photos in Black in White? Don’t you guys have photoshop?
13. What about a video…. hmm
14. Sure you have a website.. but when I am online I am going to google.com/news
15. Who owns you anyway?… Is this a Murdock company?
16. We have two computers in our house, and I’ve got a laptop.
17. Technorati is much cooler than your lame blog
18. Yelp beats your restaurant reviews any day
19. Craigslist Crushes your Classifieds
20. Can you say DAILY CLEARCUT
21. You think that’s local?
22. zzzzzzzzz BORING
23. My Social Network keeps me up-to-date
24. How many writers do you have?
25. How old are they?
27. Newspapers are for geezers
28. I’m not gonna pay even 50 Cents for that!!
29. And I’m sure not going to go to your news stand to get ONE!
30. Oh, you’ll deliver to my house.. crush my flowers.. pay some little kid minimum wage.. .to do the job.
31. Don’t you guys use emoticons
32. What about IM lingo… lol!
33. I’m always online anyway.. I just go to google.com/news
34. Local Sports is for high school kids and local losers
35. oops.. sorry.. hey at least keep me up to date with my Neighborhood
36. Oh, Freecycle.. also kicks your butt
37. I can’t save it to my thumb drive?
38. I get retweets on twitter when I need to know about stuff
39. I’ve set my email to get news alerts
40. I’ve bookmarked my favorite bloggers
41. I’m more into open source
42. Back issue archives please …?
43. Spare me the ADS
44. Did you fact check that…. wikipedia says something different
45. Yo, use the urban dictionary
46. Bookmarks?
47. Favorites?
48. Most Visited?
49. Most Viewed?
50. NO COMMENTS?!?

WTF - If I can’t have a voice in sharing my point of view, why would I be interested in reading your yours.

STOP THE PRESSES and Think About That!

oh and…
51. ¿Habla usted español?

Now this blog is probably gonna piss some people off.. so I won’t leave you without a lifeline of solutions to ponder. The world is changing and it’s time for you to reinvent yourselves and begin to contribute to a more sustainable society. Mainstream media is not a sustainable model of democratically created media or sustainable communities.

Here are some thoughts:

1. Kill the Daily Papers and get a new job.
2. Focus in on HyperLocal Community Websites and Enewsletters
3. Specialize in Niche Newspaper Creation on a weekly, Bi-monthly , monthly baisis and then print stuff which is worth reading for more than a week.
4. Focus on empowering communities and not exploiting them.. meaning you find ways to keep money circulating in community and not out of it.. into off shore bank accounts.

Ok.. your turn Love it Hate it Newspapers are going byebye!

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