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   I doubt they believed it

   

   some old guy, Nov 11th, 2008 @ 5:02pm

   
   

   They were just trying to assure their investors of their relevance.

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   True story

   

   Paul, Nov 11th, 2008 @ 5:06pm

   
   

   So, Mike, what you're trying to say is that, Obama causes destruction of forests?

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   Re: True story

   

   GeneralEmergency (profile), Nov 11th, 2008 @ 5:23pm

   
   

   No...Silly human sentimentality and a little greed here and there ate those trees.

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   Anonymous Coward, Nov 11th, 2008 @ 5:39pm

   
   

   Will the thousands of newspapers be worth anything in a few decades ? What about a century ?
   
   I think libraries keep copies ...

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   Anonymous Coward, Nov 11th, 2008 @ 6:25pm

   
   

   I guess I don't count, reading the news in print every day...

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   LMR, Nov 11th, 2008 @ 6:44pm

   
   

   I read the newspaper every day (OMG, I actually have a subscription!) as well as online news sources. I can't imagine restricting myself to just one resource when it comes to staying current and yes, I saved my paper the day after the election. For myself, my children and my grandchildren....not to resell on ebay.

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   How can a paper be worth that much?

   

   crystalattice (profile), Nov 11th, 2008 @ 8:29pm

   
   

   Maybe I can see it many years from now but how can a paper be worth $400 right now?

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   Pat, Nov 11th, 2008 @ 9:22pm

   
   

   To be fair, I'd rather be cutting down trees (if we're not complete dipshits, they'll grow back) than raping the ground of precious metals and silicon. Those don't grow back.

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   Yet, on the flip side of this story...

   

   Twinrova, Nov 12th, 2008 @ 3:46am

   
   

   ... some newspaper companies are now cashing in on the souvenir craze by offering perfect prints directly from their presses.
   
   So it should be no shock these "perfect prints" retail for over 1000% of the normal price.
   
   Tell me again how this isn't defined as greed. I would easily see a $9.99 price tag as deemed "demand in supply", but $29.99 for a damn newspaper?
   
   Here's hoping the Dow crashes and burns.

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    historic my butt!

    

    Bruce P. Van Cleve, Nov 12th, 2008 @ 4:31am

    
    

    The only thing historic about B.O. is that we elected our fist openly socialist candidate who has vowed to punish small business and other achievers. After a few years and countless bumbling, the public's sour mood will swing back the other way and realize that small businesses like this create jobs.

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    Re: Newspapers: future value and libraries

    

    dave, Nov 12th, 2008 @ 5:27am

    
    

    I still have my "Nixon Resigns" Chicago Tribune. Despite my efforts, it is in bad shape. Newsprint does not hold up well; it is intended as a temporary medium, I think, and so is high-acid paper. It yellows rapidly and becomes brittle. It may be for this reason that libraries in my area do not keep the papers more than a few weeks; they get microfiche or microfilm. I would guess that that is prdeominantly the case.

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    Trackback

    

    Crosbie Fitch (profile), Nov 12th, 2008 @ 5:29am

    
    

    Material Copies Are Sometimes Valuable

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    You are part right

    

    Sean, Nov 12th, 2008 @ 6:53am

    
    

    You are right when you say, "after a few years and countless bumbling, the public's sour mood will swing back the other way."
    
    Yea, after 8 years of this joke, the public headed the other way. He isn't a socialist you fool, that's just a word the McCain campaign planted for idiots to adhere to.
    
    McCain's acceptance speech was fantastic, but I felt bad for the poor man - his voters/followers were just screaming, yelling and booing everything about the other party and you could see in his face how disappointed he was in them - as he should be - total idiots.

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    Anonymous Coward, Nov 12th, 2008 @ 8:12am

    
    

    I work for Circulation in a small mid-west newspaper. Today we are actually running a promo, get a free Obama Poster with the 5th of Nov. edition of the newspaper for .50 cents. As of now, I've sold 160 dollars worth of papers. I'm sure by then end of the day I'll sell over 400 dollars worth. Got to love historic events, nothing drives up circulation better.

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    Re: historic my butt!

    

    Anonymous Coward, Nov 12th, 2008 @ 8:37am

    
    

    If you're so good at seeing the future, why didn't you see that McCain wasn't going to win?
    
    And really, unless you plan to repeatedly prove that you're a simple-minded dolt, swayed by the flimsiest of propaganda, you should really get over the "socialist" BS. If it were socialism, the country would take your puny business and give it to your employees, and then pay you and them exactly the same amount.
    
    Obviously, you have a computer -- go look up socialism. Learn something. It doesn't hurt.

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    Re: historic my butt!

    

    Balthazar, Nov 12th, 2008 @ 8:39am

    
    

    The only thing historic about B.O. is that we elected our fist openly socialist candidate who has vowed to punish small business and other achievers.
    
    He has done nothing of the sort. What fantasy world do you live in?

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    A (hilariously) relevant anecdote

    

    Killercool (profile), Nov 12th, 2008 @ 9:07am

    
    

    I saw on the (local) news that one local newspaper correctly predicted and actively resisted just this trend. The owner of this small town's paper intentionally didn't print the winner of the presidential race. From what I remember of the report, there was a group of protesters outside of his building, demonstrating because they "wanted to be able to have a keepsake." He (hilariously) responded that he runs a NEWSpaper, not a scrapbook company. He also mentioned what may be the saving grace of his paper: for big events (like the presidential election) people go to sources that are capable of a faster response, i.e. the internet and TV. His paper focuses on local news, which directly impacts his market, and probably isn't otherwise reported on.

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    Political News ain't everything

    

    Michael J, Nov 12th, 2008 @ 12:23pm

    
    

    The thing is that "souvenirs" and "mementos" are important in people's lives. While some believe that "political" news, which is usually just about the horse race, is the "important" stuff, there are millions of people who might disagree. About 40% didn't think it was worth voting.
    
    Physical newspapers are a much better tool for thinking and learning than the web. The screen after all is much more like reading a hyperlinked 12"scroll. Nice for consuming data and "information" quickly. A little like fast food.
    
    Print is to information what slow food is to a good meal.
    
    Consider the explosive growth of self published books and the success of photo sites, customized gifts with photos. Not very exciting, to the big wigs, but very important to the people who create them.
    
    Sound bites and quick hits - great for the web. Mulling and getting context? Print and a pencil.

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    dewey defeats truman

    

    another mike, Nov 12th, 2008 @ 3:33pm

    
    

    I actually kept campus papers from major events as souvenirs. When the football team steamrolled our arch-nemesis for 57-3 and set the record for 56 000 spectators in the stadium, when the basketball team went to the finals (every issue from the 64 through to the NCAA championship), the special evening edition on Sept. 11, 2001, the tornado that tore up campus, the day a dusty mechanical room blew up and shot a worker clear out into the street (ah, good times).
    
    As a counterpoint to keeping it in print, here's an anecdote in favor of putting it online. One of the local papers here uploaded their entire archive, dating back to their first day pouring ink as the little mining camp printing press over 100 years ago. One of my coworkers, doing a vanity googling, found out that the great-great-granduncle the family never mentions was a convicted hog thief.

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    Re: True story

    

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Nov 12th, 2008 @ 4:44pm

    
    

    Paul wrote:

    ...Obama causes destruction of forests?

    Not forests—tree farms. Paper is made from pulping softwood trees that are specifically grown to be cut down. No forests are harmed at all.

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