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Bummer.

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Shit. The interwebs sucks. :shifty:
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Just another notch in the death of quality journalism by a thousand cuts. I despise the way editors and media bean counters dress up the move to digital as some kind of new and exciting means of enhancing quality for the reader when any schmuck knows it is simply a means of producing ever more content at an increasingly cheaper price. It's all so depressing.

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Low Down Low wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 12:43pm
Just another notch in the death of quality journalism by a thousand cuts. I despise the way editors and media bean counters dress up the move to digital as some kind of new and exciting means of enhancing quality for the reader when any schmuck knows it is simply a means of producing ever more content at an increasingly cheaper price. It's all so depressing.
That way the consumer can be blamed for their own dissatisfaction. Hey, we're offering you a brave new world. It's interactive! It's multimedia! It's [buzzword]. If you don't like it, it's because you're living in a dinosaur past.
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Yeah part of it is also the change in the way people choose to "consume" such media. There's a whole lotta people who wont plunk down $$ for a print edition. "Why cant I get it for free online?"

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Low Down Low wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 12:43pm
Just another notch in the death of quality journalism by a thousand cuts.
How many years has it been since NME was associated with quality journalism?
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 12:51pm
Low Down Low wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 12:43pm
Just another notch in the death of quality journalism by a thousand cuts. I despise the way editors and media bean counters dress up the move to digital as some kind of new and exciting means of enhancing quality for the reader when any schmuck knows it is simply a means of producing ever more content at an increasingly cheaper price. It's all so depressing.
That way the consumer can be blamed for their own dissatisfaction. Hey, we're offering you a brave new world. It's interactive! It's multimedia! It's [buzzword]. If you don't like it, it's because you're living in a dinosaur past.
Yeah that's part of it and I'd happily admit to being one of those dinosaurs. I still want the dirty smudge of newsprint on my fingers when getting my daily fix. But nothing they say can convince me that all these shiny interactive new features with all their bells and whistles are any substitute for the quality, investigative reporting they are undermining and, in many cases, even replacing. Just wish the cunts would tell the truth for once, or at least not lie so blatantly about it. It's a dont piss on me and tell me it's raining kind of thing.

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oliver wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 1:34pm
Low Down Low wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 12:43pm
Just another notch in the death of quality journalism by a thousand cuts.
How many years has it been since NME was associated with quality journalism?
Fair point and it's neither today nor yesterday I last bought a copy. Speaking more in general terms I guess.

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oliver wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 1:34pm
Low Down Low wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 12:43pm
Just another notch in the death of quality journalism by a thousand cuts.
How many years has it been since NME was associated with quality journalism?
Like many a British institution, the correct era for its golden age was the year and a half after the reader started buying it.
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Silent Majority wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 6:27pm
oliver wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 1:34pm
Low Down Low wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 12:43pm
Just another notch in the death of quality journalism by a thousand cuts.
How many years has it been since NME was associated with quality journalism?
Like many a British institution, the correct era for its golden age was the year and a half after the reader started buying it.
Many ways to get what you want
I use the best, I use arrest
I use the NME
the Sun, Telegraph and Daily Mail
Cuz iiiiiii
wanna be.... :scared:
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- Marky Dread and his fabulous Screaming Blue Messiahs

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muppet hi fi wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 6:39pm
Silent Majority wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 6:27pm
oliver wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 1:34pm
Low Down Low wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 12:43pm
Just another notch in the death of quality journalism by a thousand cuts.
How many years has it been since NME was associated with quality journalism?
Like many a British institution, the correct era for its golden age was the year and a half after the reader started buying it.
Many ways to get what you want
I use the best, I use arrest
I use the NME
the Sun, Telegraph and Daily Mail
Cuz iiiiiii
wanna be.... :scared:
Luckily, I'm part of the only generation that actually managed to read the NME in its best era: when it concentrated almost solely on nu-rave and sloppy Libertines rip-off merchants in skinny jeans.
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison


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Silent Majority wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 6:42pm
muppet hi fi wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 6:39pm
Silent Majority wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 6:27pm
oliver wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 1:34pm
Low Down Low wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 12:43pm
Just another notch in the death of quality journalism by a thousand cuts.
How many years has it been since NME was associated with quality journalism?
Like many a British institution, the correct era for its golden age was the year and a half after the reader started buying it.
Many ways to get what you want
I use the best, I use arrest
I use the NME
the Sun, Telegraph and Daily Mail
Cuz iiiiiii
wanna be.... :scared:
Luckily, I'm part of the only generation that actually managed to read the NME in its best era: when it concentrated almost solely on nu-rave and sloppy Libertines rip-off merchants in skinny jeans.
Well you'll always have Mojo, Q, and Uncut. For about three more months.
Strong shoes is what we got and when they're hot they're hot!
- Marky Dread and his fabulous Screaming Blue Messiahs

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muppet hi fi wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 6:47pm
Silent Majority wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 6:42pm
muppet hi fi wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 6:39pm
Silent Majority wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 6:27pm
oliver wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 1:34pm

How many years has it been since NME was associated with quality journalism?
Like many a British institution, the correct era for its golden age was the year and a half after the reader started buying it.
Many ways to get what you want
I use the best, I use arrest
I use the NME
the Sun, Telegraph and Daily Mail
Cuz iiiiiii
wanna be.... :scared:
Luckily, I'm part of the only generation that actually managed to read the NME in its best era: when it concentrated almost solely on nu-rave and sloppy Libertines rip-off merchants in skinny jeans.
Well you'll always have Mojo, Q, and Uncut. For about three more months.
No, they aren't available in my college library for free in 2007, so I'm afraid I won't be reading them.
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison


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Silent Majority wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 6:27pm
oliver wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 1:34pm
Low Down Low wrote:
07 Mar 2018, 12:43pm
Just another notch in the death of quality journalism by a thousand cuts.
How many years has it been since NME was associated with quality journalism?
Like many a British institution, the correct era for its golden age was the year and a half after the reader started buying it.
I don't know about the golden age but Napster killed the NME for me. I no longer bought albums on review alone but could actually sample them first (or at least find and listen to popular songs.)
Putting a little stick about. Putting the frighteners on flash little twerps

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From 1988 - 1998 the NME was pretty much my music bible read it from cover to cover and fingers covered in ink ..
Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, "Listen, mate, "life" has surface noise."


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