Senator John F. Kerry will hold hearings in Washington next week on the financial problems facing the newspaper industry, as dwindling advertising dollars push many US papers to the brink of closure.
The hearings by the Senate Commerce Committee, beginning April 30, are the latest effort in the nation's capital to help out newspapers. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, Democrat of Maryland, introduced a bill last month that would enable newspaper companies to restructure as nonprofits.
First we bloggers came for the newspapers. Then the nightly news. We'll finish up with cable news.
H/T: Oliver Willis
3 comments:
he is so late to this party, it isn't even funny. what's the matter with him? go away.
Use the Internet - Save a tree.
He's generally an okay guy, but the newspapers have got to find their own way out.
My subscription to a small really local paper recently ran out and they drove me NUTS with phone calls about special offers and extensions and how not to let your subscription lapse. It was sad at first, then it was annoying, now I'm back to screening calls again and not answering the phone.
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