TFA: "This is a business decision and part of a well-planned strategy," he said.

I don't care who y'are - - that's *FUNNY* right thar.

That's still about twenty-four cents too much for some emergency toilet paper.

"A Letter To The New York Post

o gee
Come and get your New York Post
New York Post right here
Come on y'all
Get the bost stubost stubost
Coasta coasta New York Post
Yo New York Post don't brag or boast
Dissin' flavor when he's butter that you put on your toast
Put my address in the paper cause I smacked that girl
She's the mother of my kid's that I took around the world
Disagreements having scuffles when you share upon
You shouldn't try to drain subjects in a duck pond
If you're gonna tell a story about people's worries
Watch what you tell 'em cause they don't bring you glory
It only brings agony, ask James Cagney
He beat up on a guy when he found he was a fagney
Cagney is a favorite he is my boy
He don't jive around he's a real McCoy
Chuck D yeah, you tellin' Flav we got to let 'em know
Here's a letter to the New York Post
The worst piece of paper on the east coast
Matter of fact the whole state's forty cents
in New York City fifty cents elsewhere
It makes no goddamn sense at all
America's oldest continuously published daily piece of bullshiat
Flavor Flav is the one that makes The Post money
Writers making violence in headlines funny
Tryin' to undress my past until it's naked
Post got Flavor from sellin' no records
Europe Asia to the street of New York
Flavor Flav known for his finesse talk
Do it to ya for The Post to employ me
New York Post can't destroy me
Rapper of Public Enemy, rapstar beats lover
With the headline of a farked up cover
Out the pot took plate New York Post
get your story straight motherfarker
It always seem they make our neighborhood look bad
Here's a letter to the New York Post
Ain't worth the paper it's printed on
Founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton
That is 190 years continuous of farked up news
Yo one can play the game, two can play the game
Yo Flav read on can't forget you either Jet
Flavor Flav is your best Jet yet
My own people own the most business
Write on faith of value'sness
Should have checked with me before you wrote it
Got it from another source and quote it
Put it out like the new year bull drop
In every beauty parlor and barber shop
Flavor Flav world renown
Can't keep a man like Flavor down
Yo Jet be a good host
Don't print bull like the New York Post
Augh, looks like somebody slipped up here
Anyway here's a letter to the New York Post
Black newspaper and magazines are supposed to get the real deal
from the source y'all
Sorry, Jet you took the info straight out of The Post
Burned us just like toast
When it comes to getting you facts straight about P.E.
Get your shiat correct"

too many numbers in the headline.

/head asploded

But when the Post went to 50 cents April 30, the News halved its price to a quarter -- and its sales jumped 30 percent, Crain's said.

I dunno man. Halving your sales price to gain 30% in sales seems like a loss of 20% revenue right there and then you haven't even taken printing costs etc. into account.

Who would pay $5 a month to read links from a site?



/the interweb is free

I dunno man. Halving your sales price to gain 30% in sales seems like a loss of 20% revenue right there and then you haven't even taken printing costs etc. into account.

They don't care about the 25 or 50 cents you pay for the paper. They care about sales. Their ad revenue per ad is directly tied to how many papers they sell.

Option 1) Sell 1 million papers for 50 cents, get 10 million in ad revenue

Option 2) Sell 1.5 million papers for 25 cents, get 15 million in ad revenue

Lose a few hundred K in sales.. but gain 5 million in ad revenue.

/shrug... how it was explained to me in the past.

Just to clarify, because the world doesn't seem to understand this:

The NY Post is not a reputable news paper, regardless of what we've all been told to believe. It's a tabloid. Its stories are frequently just celebrity gossip and NYC rumors.
Obviously the major stories it runs are corroborated by other media sources, but the bulk of the rag is just ads mingled with hearsay.

I see what you did there subby

dinosaurs.

Who would pay $5 a month to read links from a site?

For starters, DarthBrooks, kmmontandon and Cormee

Well, in all honesty, newspapers tend to be cheaper overall than surfing the internet with your run of the mill connection...

Newspapers here go for $.50 a pop/1.50 on sundays, so that would average around $18.00 per month, which is less than many internet services.

(I know nobody would use the 'net for just news sites, but I'm just illustrating a point, however weak it may be.)

In other news, people pay real money to read the New York Post.

@Tunaboo

I stand corrected.
But to be honest. Who reads the adds anyway?

I'm sorry, I didn't realize Flavor Flav could remember so many words.

It's still a pretty funny in yer face song.

fanbladesaresharp: said. "bla. bla. bla. bla."


Well, I do.

The Post had hundreds of thousands of readers to begin with?? Who knew?

Evidently not only are logistics a biatch, but so is the correct use of the closing bold tag.

;)

$5 a month?

No way. That's a great deal. I pay $10 a month. But that's because I'm worth it.

It's not news its fark.

Jensaarai
Someone should sponsor moulderx1tgambitg for a month, just to get themcause he was addicted to TotalFark.

Fixed that for me....

/shameless begging FTW?

fanbladesaresharp - chill pill.

Fluzing:
But when the Post went to 50 cents April 30, the News halved its price to a quarter -- and its sales jumped 30 percent, Crain's said.

I dunno man. Halving your sales price to gain 30% in sales seems like a loss of 20% revenue right there and then you haven't even taken printing costs etc. into account.

You're missing the point of modern "journalism". You don't make any money from selling news to schlubs. The quarter for the paper isn't what makes the gold in the same way that the $5/month for TotalFarm would even pay an hour's worth of Drew's bar tab.
Increasing circulation is about how much you can charge for advertising. If you can manage to disguise advertising as news, so much the better.
This is the objective of modern journalism. The lofty goals of truthfully recording events for information and posterity are lost in the mists of the past in favor of pulling in advertising wampum.

The real question is...why would I pay even $.25 for the Post when there are two free daily papers in New York? Most people just want something to read on the train, and outside every station there are huge stacks of free papers that are gone by 8:30 in the morning.

Gharlans 2007-05-10 03:35:10 AM
Just to clarify, because the world doesn't seem to understand this:

The NY Post is not a reputable news paper, regardless of what we've all been told to believe. It's a tabloid. Its stories are frequently just celebrity gossip and NYC rumors.
Obviously the major stories it runs are corroborated by other media sources, but the bulk of the rag is just ads mingled with hearsay.

There's always the New York Times, which has as much credibility as the Onion while missing the occasional humor.

Fluzing: I dunno man. Halving your sales price to gain 30% in sales seems like a loss of 20% revenue right there and then you haven't even taken printing costs etc. into account.


Advertising revinue makes up the difference.

beoswulf: There's always the New York Times, which has as much credibility as the Onion while missing the occasional humor.

GB2 Free Repuiblic

Good thing this didn't happen in a state where they impose a minimum amount they can charge. You know, like the gas station that has to charge at least 9% over the wholesale cost.

The New York Post: Cheaper than toilet paper.
Warning: Already has shiat on it.

Why anyone would want to pay even 25 cents for that drivel is beyond me unless you are a really big Mallard Fillmore fan.

I have hated the NY Post since they printed the answer key to my chemistry regents exam on the front page, on the morning of the exam. The Post had found a cheating ring, and that was their way of exposing it. I had studied for a month for that test, and they ended up cancelling it.

This is how classy a paper the Post is:

From STEPHEN MILLER, obituaries editor, New York Sun: The New York Post never almost never runs full-blown staff written obits, yet here they are with what purports to be an obit -- but is actually a circulation promotion!

They are hammering the New York Times for not running this guy's obit, but in reality nobody (that I can find, and especially including the NY Post) wrote an obit for Armin Schaper when he died in August.

This kind of thing -- missing a deceased war hero -- is not at all unusual, especially if the family makes no attempt to alert the newspapers. Which is a fair guess in this case.

This is really an all-time low for the Post (at least from an obits perspective), quite a statement.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05072007/news/regionalnews/now_post_time_regionaln ews_heidi_singer_and_lukas_i__alpert.htm

No comics, no buy.

A $0.25 increase was a silly idea to begin with considering NYC has 2 free papers (Metro and AM New York) with distributors hounding you at ever subway entrance.

In addition, they are notorious for front page "distraction stories" when of course soemthing bad happens in Iraq or some one in the Bush admin. gets caught soliciting hookers or the like.

They must have considered Anna Nicole Smith's death (actualy headline: WAS IT MURDER??) a gift from God.

It is the best trash that's fit to print. Happy the price rolled back, I was going to cancel my subscription.

As much as I prefer the Post over the Daily News I was also tempted to go for the new quarter rag.

Hey, that shiat adds up.