With competition, and experience, one can detect the biases of many media sources. Some, like the New York Times, have lost their dominant position and in time, will lose more. There are many alternatives to view for “the other side”.

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July 22, 2007

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Time brings change to everything, including the Media

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By Wendell Dawson, Editor, AVOC, Inc

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Aging and time bring different perspectives to many issues.  It also let’s one witness the constant changes that take place on a daily basis.   Like accepting death, one senses the inevitable changes that occur in life.   Little (at least earthly) is constant.   I have often commented about what my grandfather, Cliff Dawson, would experience if he could see the changes wrought since his death in 1949.

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The Media is changing before our eyes.   First there was the telegraph, then the telephone, radio, then television and now the Internet and much more.   The Internet has allowed us to have access to almost limitless sources for news and entertainment.   No longer does the local daily or weekly have control of the flow of information.   Neither do local radio stations or Atlanta TV stations.

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Some large newspapers have a wider impact.    We subscribed to the Atlanta Journal when I was a teenager.   That gave access to state and national issues.

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With competition, and experience, one can detect the biases of many media sources.   Some, like the New York Times, have lost their dominant position and in time, will lose more.   There are many alternatives to view for “the other side”.

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Change is not always bad (or good).   However, few of us would trade today’s choices for those of the past.

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Change has not been good for Katie Couric - as to viewership

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General Robert E. Lee on media – ‘armchair quarterbacks’

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Robert E. Lee, 1863 

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"It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late.
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Accordingly, I'm readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I'll, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials - after the fact."

7-20-07 Savannah Morning News cutting back on newspaper deliveries

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AVOC NOTE - The Savannah Morning News is a good newspaper that I read regularly online.  http://new.savannahnow.com/in_print/

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The Columbus Ledger-Inquirer      http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/251/story/87048.html .

July 19, 2007                  Associated Press

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Savannah Morning News to stop delivery to outlying areas

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SAVANNAH, Ga.

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The Savannah Morning News will stop delivery July 30 to subscribers, stores and newspaper racks in 17 counties in Georgia and neighboring South Carolina, the newspaper reported Wednesday.

Deliveries will also be cut to portions of four additional counties.

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Publisher Julian Miller said rising fuel prices, higher postal rates and advertiser pressures forced the newspaper to scale back its delivery area to cut circulation costs.

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The change will cost the Morning News, owned by Augusta-based Morris Communications Company, about 1,025 subscribers.

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"These have been long-term customers whom we are no longer going to be able to serve, and we really hate ending the relationship," Miller said. "But we have to concentrate on our core market."

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The Morning News will continue to deliver to 14 counties in southeast Georgia and South Carolina, most of them within a 60-mile radius of Savannah.

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Currently, the newspaper's circulation area extends about 120 miles from Savannah to areas where the Morning News has "just a few subscribers and single-copy customers," Miller said.

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"With the cost of gasoline, labor prices, paper, trucking, everything has combined to make it impossible to recoup your investment that far out," Miller said.

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Mail subscriptions will still be available to readers outside the new delivery area, the newspaper said.

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After July 29, the newspaper will no longer deliver to Appling, Bacon, Burke, Coffee, Emanuel, Glynn, Jeff Davis, Jefferson, Jenkins, Montgomery, Pierce, Screven, Treutlen, Ware and Wheeler counties in Georgia. South Carolina counties being dropped are Colleton and Hampton.

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Deliveries will also be stopped to portions of Bulloch and McIntosh counties in Georgia, as well as Beaufort and Jasper counties in South Carolina.

5-30-07 Katie Couric has lowest ratings ever

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DRUDGE

http://www.drudgereport.com/

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May 30, 2007

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COURIC HITS NEW ALL-TIME LOW FOR 'CBS EVENING NEWS'
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VIEWERS, WEEK OF 5/21/07

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ABC:7,780,000

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NBC: 7,190,000

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CBS: 5,960,000

5-25-07 TV Viewership is down and declining

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The Hollywood Reporter

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3ie6ab0fd2970c3e5906a785bf23d3df6a

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May 25, 2007

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Patterns, measurements define 2006-07 season

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By Paul J. Gough

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NEW YORK -- It has been a wild and in some cases wacky season for network TV, culminating in a hunt for millions of missing viewers that is so complicated that it's worthy of its own episode of "CSI."
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On the surface, it is status quo -- CBS extended its winning streak in total viewers to five years, while "American Idol"-powered Fox bagged a third consecutive season victory among adults 18-49.
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But underneath, a sea change has been brewing.
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"I think we'll look back and see 2007 as the watershed when all the things we talked about -- viewing behavior and audience measurement of that behavior -- all came together to start the new era," NBC research chief Alan Wurtzel said. "We've talked a lot about change and everything, but this is the first year we've seen it in a profound way."
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At the beginning of the season, Nielsen Media Research introduced "most current" ratings, cuming the audiences that watch a show live as well as those that record it on a DVR and watch it up to seven days later.
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But even with those additional viewers counted this season, primetime television viewing dropped significantly compared with last season.
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The steepest decline was in live viewership, which fell 10% year-over-year among the four major broadcast networks. Adding in DVR viewership, which can boost shows' ratings by as much as 25% or more, the Big Four were still down 5%.........................