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MSNBC’s Ratigan: “I Wouldn’t Read a Newspaper Now Unless You Put a Gun to My Head”
MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan tells John Hudson of The Atlantic what’s on his media diet and it doesn’t include a printed newspaper.
Ratigan tells Hudson that besides checking his Blackberry every morning he relies heavily on his Twitter feed to get his first pass of the news each morning. It’s through that medium that he reads the feeds of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, etc., but not the physical papers themselves.
As for his thoughts on newspapers, Ratigan tells Hudson:
I don’t subscribe to any print media. I wouldn’t read a newspaper now unless you put a gun to my head and even then I would really try to negotiate with you. It’s not that I reject the content, it’s that I reject the format.
Newspapers tend to be big and bulky and readers have to skip past the ads and other information that they don’t want to get to the content they do want. With Twitter, however, it is there in short bites with links to the articles and users can quickly determine what they want or don’t want to read.
The Times, for example, has been hugely successful on Twitter with 3.4 million followers compared to The Wall Street Journal with just under 950,000 and The Washington Post with almost 550,000.
Ratigan isn’t alone in his opinion of newspapers. Circulation numbers continue to drop as readers seek a faster and cheaper method of obtaining their news.
Newspapers aren’t on their deathbed just yet, but if they can’t even get the media to read their printed product then it could lead to a much swifter descent into oblivion.
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Don Irvine is Chairman of Accuracy in Media. He is active on Facebook and Twitter. You can follow him @donirvine to read his latest thoughts.
For the longest time, I have been begging my Congressman to start an intuitive to begin legislation in initiate a Bill called BIATPM, Balance In All Televised News and Print Media…FNC would not b e affected since they already do so on a daily basis (On News shows, not Opinion Shows). Let us see how the Liberal/Progressives attempt to leave the First Amendment, the only part of the Constitution they currently believe in as it is now.
No Political Party should benefit from the Media, and I am fed up with them doing it on a regular basis, the President of the United States should also be held accountable for his BIAS and false claims, it is due to people such as Obama, his administration, and the Liberals in both Houses these past six years which the Second Amendment was written for especially.
I have done my part in raising awareness to such newspapers and news on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC (I leave Al Gore’s Current TV alone as it will self destruct), in areas of boycotts, getting others to write the Editors to show their contempt for this malpractice of the news. Tens of millions of people have became involved in petitions, boycotts, and letter writing, and we have done some pretty good damage. However they are rebuilding and no one is doing anything about stopping them, we need more help, therefore I have taken my case to Congress.