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OT: Stop the Presses - Star-Ledger to stop printing

Aside from the coupon clippings If someone could kindly tell me the relevance of why we need physical newspapers with the advent of smartphones and tablets outside of nostalgia? It's kinda like the manual hand screw tools, no one's buiding with them anymore, powertools made them completely irrelevant
 
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Star-ledger print edition will stop printing and closing its Montville production facility in 2025.

I always liked the Tony Soprano scenes getting the paper in his driveway. Sunday sports section in the fall was a treat - nfl previews , college football results , high school football results , MLB , and a column by izenberg. That was years ago and I am sure hasn’t been the same

Will politi call Julie Herman for a comment ??

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Aside from the coupon clippings If someone could kindly tell me the relevance of why we need physical newspapers with the advent of smartphones and tablets outside of nostalgia? It's kinda like the manual hand screw tools, no one's buiding with them anymore, powertools made them completely irrelevant

Easier to read because the print is larger than a smart phone with the whole page in sight.
 
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10 Most Unbiased News Sources & Channels to Follow in 2024

PBS should be removed from that list. Back in the day, even as far back as McNeill - Leher, it was. But for the last 5-6 years the slant has gotten blatant. Judy Woodruff let her Trump hatred affect her reporting and since she left it's gotten worse. The NYT? Seriously? Not for decades.
 
What is Tim Pernetti going to use to blow his nose with now?

Decades ago, when I was single, getting a large cup of coffee and a Sunday Star Ledger, then reading it out on the balcony (spring-summer-fall) was my Sunday morning ritual. Used to have a daily subscription once we had a home, but discontinued that in the early 2000's, still got a Sunday edition though. But I stopped reading and subscribing to it after the Mulcahy hatchet job. Haven't bought one in about a decade.



Working on it!
Pernetti could use the Post. Ya know, if he's really mad at his nose.
 
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Easier to read because the print is larger than a smart phone with the whole page in sight.
Although I read both online and print publications, I still like to read a physical newspaper and book. The online S-L is pretty user friendly though and they have placed a greater emphasis on local news in recent months. Is it the S-L of old? No, but it has improved and by going digital they will be able to offer more content in the form of special sections, etc.
 
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You get credit for being honest. Most people point to the other side and claim only the other side's media is biased.

I can no longer locate an unbiased media source which is disappointing and troubling. Everybody is just slurping up whatever nonsensical propaganda they’re being fed.

I think it's impossible to overstate the dangerousness of this situation in our country right now.
What are some unbiased sources of yesteryear?
 
PBS should be removed from that list. Back in the day, even as far back as McNeill - Leher, it was. But for the last 5-6 years the slant has gotten blatant. Judy Woodruff let her Trump hatred affect her reporting and since she left it's gotten worse. The NYT? Seriously? Not for decades.
I've been listening to conservatives crying about media bias and the fact that so many colleges have mostly progressive professors since the Sixties. I always told them that is because the right is stupid and wrong....and cruel.
And BTW most conservatives I know are repulsed by the maga cult and its more extreme version of stupidity and cruelty.
 
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Cancelled my subscription when they railroaded Bob M. Some good writers in the past but the overall tone was always negative towards RU.

 
The Star Ledger laid off 94% of their staff 15 years ago.

Why? Because it is much more efficient for companies to advertise on the internet through google ads and Facebook.

The newspaper started purchasing articles from mostly left leaning papers in the last several years and they left a few reporters to cover local stories.

The sports section of the print edition only covers the New York teams and occasionally Rutgers and the Devils.

The same stories will just go online to NJ.COM.

New Jersey needs more sources of Information on the state happenings not less.
 
I've been listening to conservatives crying about media bias and the fact that so many colleges have mostly progressive professors since the Sixties. I always told them that is because the right is stupid and wrong....and cruel.
And BTW most conservatives I know are repulsed by the maga cult and its more extreme version of stupidity and cruelty.
Since you are smarter than everyone who you disagree with lively debate is not possible. So stay in your little bubble and continue to believe you are morally superior and virtuous.
 
Since you are smarter than everyone who you disagree with lively debate is not possible. So stay in your little bubble and continue to believe you are morally superior and virtuous.
It's really not hard to be smarter and morally superior and virtuous than those who I was referring to.
Christ, my Shih Tzu probably clears that bar.
 
one of the guys in my gun club was an executive there and the place drove him mad with the bias, group think and hit jobs. He said that the paper is following the political landscape of the state in it's move further left which obviously permeates through the entire entity.

journalism appears dead or at the very least, we're right back to the yellow journalism days
Lol, in your gun club..
 
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When will they stop the printing of the free weekly newspapers that my neighbor refuses to pick up in the driveway (since they never subscribed to them)? I figured they would be out of business by now.
 
.....in order to get away from the brain eroding electronic devices that everyone is addicted to.
So nostalgia…

Consuming information is consuming information, the device being electronic compared to paper makes zero difference. (Unless you’re the type of person who believes pregnant women shouldn’t stand too close to the microwave in which case I can’t help you)
 
The Star Ledger laid off 94% of their staff 15 years ago.

Why? Because it is much more efficient for companies to advertise on the internet through google ads and Facebook.

The newspaper started purchasing articles from mostly left leaning papers in the last several years and they left a few reporters to cover local stories.

The sports section of the print edition only covers the New York teams and occasionally Rutgers and the Devils.

The same stories will just go online to NJ.COM.

New Jersey needs more sources of Information on the state happenings not less.
When is the last time you read it? Local coverage has improved in recent months and they have moved it up in the order the news appears. Again, it’s not like the old days, but it has improved in terms of local news coverage.
 
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