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What’s at stake
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Imagine it. Then help us make sure it doesn’t happen.
The economic reality
Until now, we’ve offered our online content for free. But we can no longer afford to operate our business this way.
The Alliance of Audited Media, an industry group that monitors the circulation of news publishers, estimates that the percentage of legitimate websites generating relevant, original content is very low, about 3 percent of the world’s 329 million websites, because the economics are brutal.
Google and Facebook dominate digital advertising, together collecting 73 percent of all digital ad revenue, according to a 2017 analysis by the research firm, Pivotal. All other companies compete for rest of the digital advertising pie. As print advertising has declined year-after-year, this has a created an impossible business model for labor-intensive, quality local journalism.
Earlier this month, the Denver Post made a dramatic plea to save that paper from an owner who has financially drained the company and trimmed the reporting staff to the bone. Our story — in many ways — is similar.
“Every day for 174 years, we have been there for you. Now we need you to be there for us.”
Getting harder & harder to sell lies & propaganda these days.
Don’t count on it, jewb#tches.
“Please, please, please read our newspaper. We promise not to lie to you every day of the week ever again”. — Editor.
So the anti-gun Sun Times cant sell a newspaper; to damn bad!
Maybe, just maybe the Shitcago Sun Times ought try to be a REAL newspaper instead of a disinformation propaganda arm of the DNC. Radical concept, I know.