It is not a "belief system", it is a retrograde, astoundingly primitive
(meaning, literally, not evolving or progressing), social system which
has been imposed on the general population with the specific intent to
suppress the full and equal participation of women in all aspects of
human activity.
Any attempt to call such a system "culture" or
tradition" is at once a willful and mendacious distortion of the truth
and a blatant, insufferable insult to all of the world's women.
By
the same token, in what cannon was it ever established that 'culture"
and 'tradition" are inherently positive values? Certainly human history
is proof positive to the contrary.
Protect us, Oh Lady, from Culture and Tradition.
Amen.
Alt Weeklies
Actually, a lot of alt-weeklies are doing okay in terms of
advertising revenue and circulation... there are a couple of reasons
why...
A) their ad revenue always sucked... most are free and not delivered, which means the rates they could charge for ads was always much, much, much lower than newspapers with paid circulation and delivery... so they developed their business much further down the chain... ie, big major dailies had a long way to fall -- huge newsrooms to cut back and a lot of content to cut, leading to a decline in the paper's quality... alt-weeklies don't have fall to far -- they've developed their business with small staffs and limits on their content from the very start... nobody picks up their local alt-weekly and shakes their head and says "man, this just ain't what it used to be"... because it's always been shitty.
B) the more local a paper's content is, the better off the circulation has been doing... you can get national news from any number of sources, and even most of your state/regional news from any news organization that has an AP subscription... you can't get your sulky treatises on why Band of Horses are such sellouts anywhere but your local alt-weekly.
C) people who do pick up alt-weeklies pick them up for different reasons than people might pick up a newspaper or a magazine, or even some of the bigger "alt-media" papers, like the onion's print edition... nobody (almost nobody) is like: "Oh shit, I've got to have my copy of the Akron alt-weekly right now!" If people were, then some smart enterprising person would put it online (or content similar) and put the alt-weekly out of business. Instead, most people who pick up the Akron alt-weekly, are walking down the street and think, "oh that's an interesting cover and i've enjoyed reading this paper" and pick it up... or see it in a restaurant, or on the way out of the grocery store, etc. I've replaced my NYT and WaPo reading with online versions, because why the fuck should I wait for a paper to show up, and pay for that shit when I can just go online. There just isnt' a huge demand for the alt-weekly product online.
D) part of the appeal of the alt-weekly is what you see in the print edition and isn't replaceable with an online edition. When I pick up the DC alt-weekly, it's usually because it has good cover art -- that's what's driving my interest, and that's not affected by the availability of the content online, or an alternative.
The Village Voice is a big enough, serious enough publication it may be facing problems that real newspapers have, but most alt-weeklies have a shitty business plan to begin with, but because of the nature of their content, many of the ones who have managed to be financially stable to this point are holding steady.
A) their ad revenue always sucked... most are free and not delivered, which means the rates they could charge for ads was always much, much, much lower than newspapers with paid circulation and delivery... so they developed their business much further down the chain... ie, big major dailies had a long way to fall -- huge newsrooms to cut back and a lot of content to cut, leading to a decline in the paper's quality... alt-weeklies don't have fall to far -- they've developed their business with small staffs and limits on their content from the very start... nobody picks up their local alt-weekly and shakes their head and says "man, this just ain't what it used to be"... because it's always been shitty.
B) the more local a paper's content is, the better off the circulation has been doing... you can get national news from any number of sources, and even most of your state/regional news from any news organization that has an AP subscription... you can't get your sulky treatises on why Band of Horses are such sellouts anywhere but your local alt-weekly.
C) people who do pick up alt-weeklies pick them up for different reasons than people might pick up a newspaper or a magazine, or even some of the bigger "alt-media" papers, like the onion's print edition... nobody (almost nobody) is like: "Oh shit, I've got to have my copy of the Akron alt-weekly right now!" If people were, then some smart enterprising person would put it online (or content similar) and put the alt-weekly out of business. Instead, most people who pick up the Akron alt-weekly, are walking down the street and think, "oh that's an interesting cover and i've enjoyed reading this paper" and pick it up... or see it in a restaurant, or on the way out of the grocery store, etc. I've replaced my NYT and WaPo reading with online versions, because why the fuck should I wait for a paper to show up, and pay for that shit when I can just go online. There just isnt' a huge demand for the alt-weekly product online.
D) part of the appeal of the alt-weekly is what you see in the print edition and isn't replaceable with an online edition. When I pick up the DC alt-weekly, it's usually because it has good cover art -- that's what's driving my interest, and that's not affected by the availability of the content online, or an alternative.
The Village Voice is a big enough, serious enough publication it may be facing problems that real newspapers have, but most alt-weeklies have a shitty business plan to begin with, but because of the nature of their content, many of the ones who have managed to be financially stable to this point are holding steady.
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