\nstage of grief<\/a> is the VDT in? Looks to me like they’re still in denial\nbut are moving to anger (“NO!”).\n\nI hope they get past that soon, because I want them to succeed.\nThe VDT already has moved to take up some of the slack of the\ndeparture of the AJC and the GTU, and the VDT does have a pretty\nusable web interface.\nMaybe they can find a hybrid of paper and web that will work for them.\n
\nSure, a paper paper is limited in what it can print by how much paper\nit can afford to distribute and how many reporters it can pay for.\nBut an online newspaper doesn’t have to be as limited:\nspace is no barrier so reporters could be publishing much more\nthan currently appears, and there are far more sources of information\nthan reporters alone. Professional reporters and editors may be able to actually expand their current roles\nby drawing on amateur sources. More on that later.\n
\nMeanwhile, here’s hoping the VDT finds a way to exchange “NO!” for yes.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tired of hearing people say newspapers are dying, the Valdosta Daily Times channels former Alaska Senator Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens’ favorite response: My answer to all of the above is an emphatic \u201cNO!\u201d The other talk the VDT is saying no to is about foreclosures and job loss. It’s curious about the foreclosures, since […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[848],"tags":[2083,2078,3,2079,2084,2,2085,2082,2080,2081,45,1286,2077,1287,1912],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-ajc","tag-atlanta-journal-constitution","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-times-union","tag-gtu","tag-lowndes-county","tag-newspaper","tag-no","tag-seattle-post-intelligencer","tag-ted-stevens","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-daily-times","tag-valdosta-msa","tag-vdt","tag-web"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-a9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>\nTired of hearing people say newspapers are dying,\n