Newspaper convention canceled amid industry woes (AP)

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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE – Feb 27, 2009

An annual convention of newspaper editors has been canceled for the first time since World War II, undone by the worst economic crisis since that harrowing era.

The American Society of Newspapers Editors' decision to skip this year's meeting was announced Friday, coinciding with the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News — the largest daily U.S. newspaper to shut down so far during a steep two-year slide in advertising revenue that's draining the life out of the industry.

"The industry is in crisis," said Charlotte Hall, president of the trade group and editor of the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel. "This is a time when editors need to be in their own news rooms doing everything they can," to help their publications survive.

Until now, 1945 had been the only year that the American Society of Newspaper Editors didn't meet since the group's first convention in 1923. The newspaper industry weathered through 10 U.S. recessions since the last cancellation.

If it hadn't been canceled, this year's convention — scheduled from April 26-29 in Chicago — probably would have attracted a sparse crowd because so many newspapers are pinching pennies to ease their financial pain.
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[Peace Patriot]

1. RIP, Corporate Media! On second thought, you don't deserve to rest in peace,

after all the lies and disinformation and Bushwhack wars and defuckingregulation and Financial 9/11's and stolen elections you have colluded in! If you printed anything that it might be useful for the American people to read--like the truth--you wouldn't be able to print enough newspapers to satisfy demand, and you'd be turning ad buyers away for lack of space.

Good riddance! I hope every one of these corporate craprags go under.

Make way for REAL journalism, by REAL reporters, investigators and commentators, produced by small, competitive, feisty, trouble-making, corporate-hating, American business people who want to give their readers something worth reading.

Here's an example, the Lone Star Econoclast, out of Crawford, Texas--one of the best newspapers in the country, and the bane of George W. Bush: www.lonestaricon.com.