{"id":1845,"date":"2009-01-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/startribune-circling-the-drain\/"},"modified":"2009-01-16T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T14:00:00","slug":"startribune-circling-the-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/startribune-circling-the-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"StarTribune Circling The Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies to Bob Dylan, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/news\/ci_11466721?source=rss\" target=\"_blank\">chapter 11 bankruptcy of one of our local papers<\/a>, the StarTribune, has been a slow train coming.&#160; Clearly this is one of the worst dailies in the entire US.&#160; Mismanaged, cash-strapped and unbelievably biased, this newspaper has been on the edge of inevitability for 2 years.&#160; Yesterday they finally filed.<\/p>\n<p>I am certain they will cut costs and restructure their debt before coming out of bankruptcy, but in the end I don\u2019t think it will matter.&#160; The game has changed; day-old news printed on paper is a thing of the past.&#160; The world is steadily moving towards instant, on-demand.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly reporting will continue\u2026it needs to, but I think the only sustainable media for newspapers is online.&#160; Develop the website, draw in the visitors and charge advertisers for those pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies to Bob Dylan, but the chapter 11 bankruptcy of one of our local papers, the StarTribune, has been a slow train coming.&#160; Clearly this is one of the worst dailies in the entire US.&#160; Mismanaged, cash-strapped and unbelievably biased, this newspaper has been on the edge of inevitability for 2 years.&#160; Yesterday they finally filed. I am certain they will cut costs and restructure their debt before coming out of bankruptcy, but in the end I don\u2019t think it will matter.&#160; The game has changed; day-old news printed on paper is a thing of the past.&#160; The world is steadily moving towards instant, on-demand. Clearly reporting will continue\u2026it&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/startribune-circling-the-drain\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1152,1153],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-tL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->