Althouse: The end of the daily student newspaper.

November 12, 2015

The end of the daily student newspaper.

UW-Madison used to have 2. Now, none.

15 comments:

Michael K said...: Why does anyone care ? At Dartmouth, The "Daily Dartmouth" is useless and "the Dartmouth Review," which I subscribe to, is banned in the dorms.

The Dartmouth Review is, of course. Conservative and therefore banned.

As an example of their recklessness, they publish reviews of each professor and suggest which to avoid.; 11/12/15, 9:29 PM
Wince said...: Final Headline: "Dean's Wife to Vacation in Saratoga Springs".; 11/12/15, 9:35 PM
Anonymous said...: Today's students are such fragile little snowflakes, it is a good thing they can have a campus free of a newspaper. Imagine how horribly triggered the poor oppressed dears would be if they had to deal with the outside world! Even on-campus news might be triggering if some opposing view somehow made it into print. Better to have no newspapers than for a single student to feel unsafe.; 11/12/15, 10:40 PM
Etienne said...: I used to have a paper route when I was a kid. I hated the Sunday edition! In Portland, the Oregonian probably weighed a couple pounds each they were so big.

They dropped my papers off on a main street newspaper box, and us kids would go get our papers there. On Sunday I usually had to make three trips to the box to get them all. Then I had to assemble the three parts of the paper.

I remember my neighbor was always up at 5 am, and he said to always knock on the door when I got the first one assembled. Damn, he was a good tipper too.

I'm telling you, you couldn't read the Sunday paper in one day! No way, well, if you chucked the sections you didn't care about, but you really had to page through the whole thing to find all the coupons that were available.

Then too, there was no paper recycling back then. All the papers went into the landfill.

Ah well...; 11/13/15, 5:28 AM
Bob R said...: I was interviewed by the local college newspaper, and they did both a dead tree article and a video segment for the web. The dead tree article was college newspaper quality. The web video would have been fine on network news. Kids are putting their time and effort in the media of the future.; 11/13/15, 5:41 AM
tim maguire said...: If I never hear the term "snowflake" again to derisively describe college students who are exactly what they were raised to be, it will be too soon. It's past its sell-by date.

It sounds like they still have a newspaper, they're just limiting the print edition. And why not? These days, there's no need for all that extra expense.; 11/13/15, 5:52 AM
Curious George said...: I used to not give two fucks. Now I don't give any.; 11/13/15, 6:42 AM
Phil 314 said...: The issue is the physical paper.; 11/13/15, 7:13 AM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: The University of Washington mailed out a welcome edition copy of it's paper, The Daily, to all the incoming freshman. The back page of that issue was a full page ad for the Seattle Sperm Bank. I was impressed with the acumen of their marketing department.; 11/13/15, 9:48 AM
gerry said...: Another "news" -paper gone. Well, that's a relief.; 11/13/15, 9:52 AM
Sal said...: I thought they would've gone under as soon as they stopped running Calvin and Hobbes.; 11/13/15, 10:22 AM
Anonymous said...: Snowflake is the perfect term! They hall think they are unique, but you can't tell it if you are more than an inch away, they all wilt and turn into (tiny!) puddles when the heat is on, and when a large number get together they are a real PITA.

What's past the sell-by date is claiming an idea is past the sell-by date.; 11/13/15, 10:53 AM
James Pawlak said...: They are not needed. All students must do is listen to the rants of goose-stepping fascist mobs as ot provide THE TRUTH to all on campus.; 11/13/15, 11:09 AM
mikee said...: Freedom of speech has costs associated with it, in print, used verbally, or on any social media.

Some costs are obvious, like printing costs. Others are less obvious, like the memory of the internet and the stupid things people record themselves saying, thinking and doing, fairly permanently stored online.; 11/13/15, 2:52 PM
BN said...: I'm begging. You need a "signs of the apocalypse" tag badly.

Ok, never mind. Everyone of your posts is a sign.; 11/14/15, 12:43 AM