Is there a thread for the rapid death of the newspaper industry?

the scribd / wikipedia model of education. fuck peer review anyway! Sanpaku would mop up, he can teach anything

I mean there's lots of college math textbooks released under this model at least. Couldn't tell you how many classes other than those of the authors adopt them, of course.

interesting post, SV. And your point about packaging 'digital access' with books is otm - when someone told me how they were doing this my response was 'what, like a CD-ROM?!' and they smiled ruefully and basically said 'those were the days' where they made a load of additional cash out of digital.

I don't know much about textbooks in K12 so I won't comment on that.

In France HE textbooks are much less of a thing than they are in the usa (don't know uk). Profs generally write their own lecture notes, and those are made available either (old fashioned) as copies in the library or online (I do the latter). This is obviously the best solution for serious universities, where the teaching faculty are also active researchers. I'm an editor of an "open" textbook in my speciality, managed through GitHub so that teachers can assemble their text à la carte from the components we've collectively written. Obviously this is free as in beer. You can also have the books printed on command so students who don't have good access to the net/machine can use the book (you then just pay for the printing). This is, I hope, the future of textbooks.

also an interesting post, Euler.

as you say, probably harder to do with K12 and state curriculums, but v interesting as a possible future model.

to get this thread back on track this joyous news cross-posted from the rolling UK politics thread:


https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/feb/23/the-sun-records-huge-loss-amid-falling-print-sales-phone-hacking-damages

the end point of this terminal stage of big money liberalism is the heartbreaking plea, "why aren't donors stepping up to rescue [thing they don't actually care about]" https://t.co/QZfjOajpxV

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 19, 2020

Someone stick a fork in the Herald

What do you think of David Icke's conspiracy theories? https://t.co/FFkbrunR2n

— HeraldScotland (@heraldscotland) May 1, 2020

We asked Nicola Sturgeon if she had the brainpower to recognise that the coronavirus has been cooked up to help usher in a tyrannical fascist world government.

She declined to comment. 

Seriously get this to fuck.

a mix between shite and bollocks with the swagger of a cunt?

(i tried)

Print newspaper sales figures are supposed to be out today. But following industry representations, they no longer have to be made public. The monthly ABC sales charts have also been stopped permanently as they give "stimulus to write a negative narrative of circulation decline".

— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) May 21, 2020

lol

If you keep the decline a secret maybe it will stop.

wow

Note: Tribune Publishing has cut salaries & instituted furloughs citing the pandemic/the economy but the savings to the company is ~less than~ what it is paying in severance to one (1) executive. These decisions are made deliberately to enrich the few on the backs of the many. pic.twitter.com/43KToeEZNf

— Nina Metz (@Nina_Metz) May 21, 2020

probably of no interest to non-pittsburghers but shit is *going down*with the post-gazette. western pa’s biggest supermarket chain just said they’d stop stocking it!

(owner/publisher are right wing racists, see google for most recent details, which are Fucked Up)

hmmm

Scoop from @kdoctor:

"Leaders in the field of nonprofit journalism are deciding over the next 48 hours whether or not to make a bid for all of @mcclatchy, sources tell me."

The idea: create the country's first major nonprofit newspaper chain.https://t.co/UoF082BnjG

— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) June 29, 2020

^ if this can be made to work, it will show the way out of the current hellscape

I believe we slept on 'TEACH BOYS TO DUST'

Came across this montage I made for a presentation when working at EC London office. Wonder if future historians will look at who took decisions to bombard UK public with this drivel day after day, why they did it and did it bring them or anyone any gains in the end? pic.twitter.com/FQHRIUOQma

— Mark English (@EULondonMark) August 5, 2020

disappointing there are only two NOW... headlines there

Oh wait, three

this is amazing https://www.ft.com/content/745e34a1-0ca7-432c-b062-950c20e41f03

sorry that's paywalled. it's about how Wirecard tried to discredit the FT by setting up fake news operations with spies bribing market manipulators and other evil-billionaire nonsense.

I totally thought, for a second, that you were posting about the FT's baroque payment structure.

Such a great read. Like a spy thriller or something.

I mean Jesus Christ lads pic.twitter.com/oDOW6EBh3W

— The Author, Séamas O'Reilly (@shockproofbeats) April 8, 2021

LOL Englishes

Mind you, maybe the editor of the Metro is an Orangeman.

well they did previously get a load of DUP cash for a Brexit ad.

Some questioned if it was a deliberate attempt at humour, or if the positioning of the stories was an unfortunate oversight.

lol yeah sure

Orangeman bad

A whole lot of responses to the question: why did you cancel your NYT/Guardian/Idaho Mountain Express subscription

https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/10/expensive-boring-and-wrong-here-are-all-the-news-publications-people-canceled-and-why/

Interesting piece

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society-and-culture/the-inside-story-of-backstabbing-feuds-and-intrigue-at-the-daily-mail

Superfluous announcement gets canned

📢 '...put unwanted newspapers in the bin...'

This is one example of the announcements that we're getting rid of, making the passenger experience better and delivering on the Williams-Shapps #PlanForRail. 

Read more on announcements we’re removing: https://t.co/ZZQGqW58Jn pic.twitter.com/l2ITutFsci

— Department for Transport (@transportgovuk) January 21, 2022

Captured on video: the last willing reader of the Telegraph