tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post4944416293302133989..comments2024-03-28T18:17:00.135-05:00Comments on Computational Complexity: Extra! Extra! Read all about it!Lance Fortnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06752030912874378610noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-62461929657740463382019-02-25T17:50:18.087-06:002019-02-25T17:50:18.087-06:00The true "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!&qu...The true "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" probably ended with the widespread use of radio. Assuming the type you mention, do you think there we no major events between August 19, 1991 and September 11, 2001 that might have gotten an extra edition? Start of the 1995 government shutdown? Something with President Clinton's sex scandals? US embassy attacks? Columbine? 2000 election things? Would you consider a literal "Stop the presses!" moment from a major newspaper like the New York Times similar? They did for the death of Osama bin Laden, many years after you claim people no longer needed newspapers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-60619271636843754942019-02-21T11:40:36.199-06:002019-02-21T11:40:36.199-06:00It seems that Obama's 2009 inauguration genera...It seems that Obama's 2009 inauguration generated<br /><a href="https://www.cantonrep.com/article/20090121/NEWS/301219714" rel="nofollow">extra editions</a> in 2009 which were designed as collectors items. (The article mentions that there were indeed 9/11 extra editions.) <br /><br />For all the discussion of the internet killing newspapers, it isn't the fact that people who were picking up newspapers for major news stories are now getting them online - they already had TV and radio news for that - that has done them in. It is the detailed sports scores, stock market quotes, and classified ads that one can get online that has really killed them. Other major draws were the comic strips and puzzle pages. The NYT Crossword is still one of their major revenue sources for subscriptions but the page of comic strips seems to have really lost its draw and does not seem to have been replicated online in any remotely equivalent form.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744495309363882940noreply@blogger.com