Rush: The untold reason newspapers are dying

I think that Rush is absolutely right. If you are running a business and you insult half of your customers consistently, how long do you think they will choose to do business with you?

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Bruce

'PALM BEACH, Fla. – Radio powerhouse Rush Limbaugh says American newspapers are dying not because of a flawed business model or the influence of the Internet, but for one reason left-leaning journalists don’t wish to admit.

“When are you people gonna realize it is your content that’s being rejected? It’s your content that is your problem as much as anything else,” Limbaugh said Wednesday on his top-rated program.

“You’ve got shrinking circulation, shrinking ad pages, shrinking ad revenue, and you wonder why your readers don’t even patronize your sponsors – and you don’t even think to look at the number one reason why people would open a newspaper, and that’s what’s in it! The content.”
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“There’s a question that people like Bernstein need to ask themselves as they’re heaping praise on Bezos and Amazon. Mr. Bernstein, ask yourself a question: ‘Does Amazon insult half of its customers every day, like the Washington Post does? Does Amazon pretend that half the country doesn’t even exist, like the Washington Post does? Does Amazon insult and impugn and laugh at and make fun of half the people in the country, like the Washington Post does, like the New York Times does, like NBC, CBS, ABC do? Does it?’ It doesn’t, and if Bezos is gonna make one change, it’s gonna be that. He’s a customer-service guy.'