From the mouthpiece of liberal elitism (or is it elitist liberalism?), The New York Times, comes this story about the imminent demise of The Christian Science Monitor’s daily print edition.
The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to largely give up on print.
And so it begins.
The nonprofit, church-financed fish-wrap won seven Pulitzers over the years and reached a circulation peak of 220,000 back in 1970. It’s now down to 52,000, which is closer to zero than it is to glory days of yore. Editor John Yemma does his best to put a happy face on the news:
We have the luxury — the opportunity — of making a leap that most newspapers will have to make in the next five years.
Right. And most newspaper employees will have the opportunity — nay, the luxury — of finding a new line of work.
This article appears in Don’t Toss the Coin.
YIKES !! Just what will people read in those Christian Science reading rooms?
The venerable LA Times just went through a 2nd or 3rd round of layoffs this week. Will they, too, make the luxurious leap?
That’s really scary!
my reading of the CSM in the 80’s to 90’s always led me to believe it was a pretty unbiased paper with excellent international coverage.
When does the NCJ go paperless?
after the zig zags are all smoked, ha!