Saturday, February 7, 2009

The Media Is Dying Part I

Being a form of media, Understandable Gumdrops is frightened to find that media is dying. Fortunately, I don't pay for my blog. Yay. We stumbled upon a Twitter channel entitled The Media Is Dying. Every Saturday, from this day forward, we will point out all of the News) flavored Gumdrops that have been eaten in the last week.

This week, 24 Gumdrops:

1. The Medscape Journal of Medicine will no longer print new papers.
2. EMI cuts 1,500 jobs.
3. Indycar Magazine ceases publication.
4. The Monitor is no longer printing.
5. Three Chicago newspapers cut down on their tuesday issues.
6. Doubledown media shuts down.
7. WMFE reports more layoffs.
8. No Cal Public Broadcasting cuts budget by 15%.
9. NYT considers charging again for website.
10. Night Talk is canceled.
11. CNN "will no longer have editorial presence in the New England area."
12. Scyre ceases publishing.
13. The Weather Channel lets 4 on air people go.
14. Arizona Woman ceases publication.
15. Juicy Campus ceases publishing.
16. Walmart stops selling People Magazine.
17. Metal Edge and Metal Maniacs ceases publishing.
18. New England Property Report ceases publishing.
19. Seattle Times asks employees for 12% pay cut.
20. Healing Lifestyles and Spas is closing.
21. Financial Times scraps sports coverage.
22. Vail Sun ceases publishing.
23. The Washington Post will no longer be making freelance payments.
24. Washington Blade out of business.

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