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Benny Profane
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I worked for SI for ten years. Trust me, it was a shadow of its former self. The marketing and bean counters started slowly killing it around 2000, and then the name, or "brand" was sold for cheap maybe ten years ago. All the good writers left a long time ago. It's been dead to me for years.
Benny Profane
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No, well paid production.
Related to this, my old employer in Saratoga Springs, Quad Graphics, just announced they're closing the plant. 3 million SI editions were printed every week in seven printing plants across the country. Gawd knows what the numbers are now. Print is dead.
Related to this, my old employer in Saratoga Springs, Quad Graphics, just announced they're closing the plant. 3 million SI editions were printed every week in seven printing plants across the country. Gawd knows what the numbers are now. Print is dead.
Ripitz
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More inbounds avy action.
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We make every effort to populate the avalanche occurrence database (map and table) in a timely manner. We will record larger avalanches we directly observe, those with human involvement, and all other notable slides we can confirm within reason. The avalanche occurrence database will never be a...
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saratogahalfday
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I know someone in management at Quad, he's really worried about the rank-and-file losing their jobs this spring. Print is certainly dead. Soon enough we'll be consuming all media virtually.
Benny Profane
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Not many manufacturing jobs around there. Tough to be middle class. And the RE is getting absurd in that town. It was somewhat affordable twenty years ago, but WFH has made it the Aspen of upstate. The track season doesn't help. Some people rent their homes for the season and do very well.
Harvey
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As long as people expect content for "free" this will continue. I put free in quotes, because what pays for content online is your personal information which gets sold to marketers. If you don't like the fact that Facebook, Google et al are mining you for data, then pay for content.
Print can't easily gather and sell your data, so they can't compete.
There are a few notable exceptions, the NYTimes seems to be solvent.
The people who claim print isn't dead are hoping it isn't true. Mountain Gazette comes to mind. The publisher says "print isn't dead" dozens of times a year, online to his digital audience. The same place where he talks about reducing his screen time to improve the quality of his life. MG is a luxury, not a necessity.
The loss of local newspapers is an issue that is more important then people realize. Those were the outlets that kept local politicians in check, by exposing corruption. Those outlets can't afford to do that kind of work anymore.
Print can't easily gather and sell your data, so they can't compete.
There are a few notable exceptions, the NYTimes seems to be solvent.
The people who claim print isn't dead are hoping it isn't true. Mountain Gazette comes to mind. The publisher says "print isn't dead" dozens of times a year, online to his digital audience. The same place where he talks about reducing his screen time to improve the quality of his life. MG is a luxury, not a necessity.
The loss of local newspapers is an issue that is more important then people realize. Those were the outlets that kept local politicians in check, by exposing corruption. Those outlets can't afford to do that kind of work anymore.
I grew up in Saratoga - went to High School there in the 80's .........so many people graduated and were able to get good paying full time jobs at Quad - hard work, hard hours but if you have the fortitude - you did well. Sad to see a job like that go, they were the darling of the area for awhile.
