11-07-2008, 03:41 AM
By Carol Bengle Gilbert, published Nov 06, 2008
For the second day running, there's a blackout on print news in Washington, D.C. for anyone without the foresight to have purchased a home newspaper subscription. Yesterday, with the historic election of Barack Obama, the nation's first African-American president, everyone, it seems, wanted a souvenir copy of the Washington Post. It was my husband who first alerted me by email that there were no newspapers to be found on his commute into dowtown DC. Newspaper boxes stood empty. No Washington Post, no Washington Times, not even the pathetic Examiner, the challenged Washington Post offspring made for Metro reading.
My husband's hopes to buy a New York Times and a few other national newspapers for comparison reading were dashed yesterday. When he arrived home, he told me that the daily copy of the Post carrying the news of Obama's election was selling on ebay for $20.
This morning, my husband emailed me once again to say that newspapers were nonexistent in the city. It so happened that I was headed into the city to attend Talk of the World at the Newseum. The Newseum yesterday presented a display of 600 newspapers from around the nation and the world, many bearing 2008 U.S. election banner headlines. Many of those newspapers were displayed outside the entrance and have been held over by popular demand- secured under heavy plexiglass I might add for those news fix desperados who might otherwise stoop to snitching a copy. Click here to see the online version of headlines from around the world announcing the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States of America.
While examining the newspapers from around the world, I met a DC resident who advised me that she had faced the same difficulty as my husband two days running trying to obtain copies of newspapers. She did manage to snag one copy of the Wall St. Journal, but that extra copy of the Washington Post and other national newspapers proved impossible to find. She advised me that a copy of the Post's Obama election news was listed on ebay for $199. Following our discussion, I checked out all the newspaper outlets I could find and confirmed that there were no Washington Post or Washington Times in any of the many distribution boxes in the center of the city.
I checked ebay late this afternoon to find out that yesterday's news is offered at prices currently ranging from $2.25 to $29.95 with a buy-it-now price of $50. And that's just the Washington Post. Yesterday's news as reflected in the New York Times carries a heftier price tag, with prices ranging up to $400. Someone is hawking yesterday's Chicago Tribune for $500, though so far there are no bidders.
Print journalism has not had it so good in a long time.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...html?cat=9
For the second day running, there's a blackout on print news in Washington, D.C. for anyone without the foresight to have purchased a home newspaper subscription. Yesterday, with the historic election of Barack Obama, the nation's first African-American president, everyone, it seems, wanted a souvenir copy of the Washington Post. It was my husband who first alerted me by email that there were no newspapers to be found on his commute into dowtown DC. Newspaper boxes stood empty. No Washington Post, no Washington Times, not even the pathetic Examiner, the challenged Washington Post offspring made for Metro reading.
My husband's hopes to buy a New York Times and a few other national newspapers for comparison reading were dashed yesterday. When he arrived home, he told me that the daily copy of the Post carrying the news of Obama's election was selling on ebay for $20.
This morning, my husband emailed me once again to say that newspapers were nonexistent in the city. It so happened that I was headed into the city to attend Talk of the World at the Newseum. The Newseum yesterday presented a display of 600 newspapers from around the nation and the world, many bearing 2008 U.S. election banner headlines. Many of those newspapers were displayed outside the entrance and have been held over by popular demand- secured under heavy plexiglass I might add for those news fix desperados who might otherwise stoop to snitching a copy. Click here to see the online version of headlines from around the world announcing the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States of America.
While examining the newspapers from around the world, I met a DC resident who advised me that she had faced the same difficulty as my husband two days running trying to obtain copies of newspapers. She did manage to snag one copy of the Wall St. Journal, but that extra copy of the Washington Post and other national newspapers proved impossible to find. She advised me that a copy of the Post's Obama election news was listed on ebay for $199. Following our discussion, I checked out all the newspaper outlets I could find and confirmed that there were no Washington Post or Washington Times in any of the many distribution boxes in the center of the city.
I checked ebay late this afternoon to find out that yesterday's news is offered at prices currently ranging from $2.25 to $29.95 with a buy-it-now price of $50. And that's just the Washington Post. Yesterday's news as reflected in the New York Times carries a heftier price tag, with prices ranging up to $400. Someone is hawking yesterday's Chicago Tribune for $500, though so far there are no bidders.
Print journalism has not had it so good in a long time.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...html?cat=9