http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2009/01/29/back-to-the-future-of-online-newspapers/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:18:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2009/01/29/back-to-the-future-of-online-newspapers/#comment-117 wordnerd Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:35:32 +0000 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/?p=215#comment-117 It's not a newspaper if it doesn't blot up spilled coffee. It’s not a newspaper if it doesn’t blot up spilled coffee.

]]> http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2009/01/29/back-to-the-future-of-online-newspapers/#comment-110 dc Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:30:07 +0000 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/?p=215#comment-110 It does still exist, but in very different form. It used to be a Hearst broadsheet, and was William Randolph Hearst's first flagship paper, but about a decade ago, Hearst bought the higher-circulation Chronicle, and sold off the Examiner. New owners transformed the Examiner into a tabloid, and now it costs even less than 20 cents -- it's free. It's not much of a newspaper anymore, being more like one of those free commuter tabloids that have popped up in the last ten years. It does still exist, but in very different form. It used to be a Hearst broadsheet, and was William Randolph Hearst’s first flagship paper, but about a decade ago, Hearst bought the higher-circulation Chronicle, and sold off the Examiner. New owners transformed the Examiner into a tabloid, and now it costs even less than 20 cents — it’s free. It’s not much of a newspaper anymore, being more like one of those free commuter tabloids that have popped up in the last ten years.

]]> http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2009/01/29/back-to-the-future-of-online-newspapers/#comment-108 ng Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:20:13 +0000 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/?p=215#comment-108 "the twenty cent street edition"!! Does the Examiner still exist? “the twenty cent street edition”!!
Does the Examiner still exist?

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