Newspaper Classifieds Take A Swipe At Craiglist
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by: AmandaSnow
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The popular story now a days is about Craiglist being in major trouble and about the seven states which are going to take action against it. This is all because Craiglist allowed a massage therapist to place an online advertisement with them but then a person who had seen her ad called on her and murdered her. The world of online advertisement began to crumble and everyone who had supported earlier began contemplating that this should not have even been allowed to be placed. Well, the truth is that if people look at their news paper, they will find these advertisements strewn all over the place.
If you are looking forward to see the news papers stop printing this news any time soon, you will be disheartened to know that that is not going to take place any time soon. This is because the news papers have got a chance t put down their most worthy opponent - Craiglist. Before any of these online companies had been introduced, news papers were used to hogging all the lime light. However now the news papers are having to deal with financial trouble instead. Already it has come to the point where many companies have filed BK.
There was a Congressional hearing recently where the CEO's of the different news paper companies came together to launch a combined attack on online advertisements and their likes along with Craiglist. This is when they had also asked for the new rules to be implemented against them. Online advertisements forced classified to drop to an all time low of 20% after they became so popular. this was a blow to the news paper media because this was once their most profitable business. The news papers are bound to take every opportunity they get to slaughter the reputation of the online advertising and craiglist especially.
There are so many front page articles on the murder that it might get sickening at point. However, you cant really think that the news paper media will give this up easily. they are making full use out of this opportunity for them. the public too has changed their opinion and is supporting the news paper media now. This is not as profitable as it seems as people may get inspired to copy the murder already done. Also, it is not acceptable to change the various thoughts of the public according to ourselves or to be able to influence the government to make rules against another media.
The end point definitely is to be able to think of the various factors and then only take the right decision. Consider the entire scenario.
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