{"id":242,"date":"2003-08-31T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-31T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2018-08-02T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T21:29:09","slug":"242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/31\/242\/","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes.Com, a Plucky Dot-Com Startup, Apparently Thriving, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN&#8217;s got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/TECH\/ptech\/08\/28\/bus2.feat.onion.site\/index.html\" target=\"new\">story<\/a> talking about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\" target=\"new\"><i>The Onion<\/i><\/a> is continuing to thrive.  No, check that, it&#8217;s TheOnion.com that&#8217;s the real story, even though:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nToday newspaper ads from its five regional editions still account for 50 percent of the company&#8217;s revenue, compared with about 30 percent from Web advertising. (The rest comes from book proceeds, a few thousand subscribers to the paper, and other businesses.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh!  So it&#8217;s <i>TheOnion.com<\/i> that&#8217;s turning a profit, wot?  Somebody with the national press, banging out this story instead of Shakespeare in a room full of colleagues, probably hasn&#8217;t seen the ubitquous paper in its stands in Wisconsin, where it&#8217;s full of local ads for bands and music venues.  Instead, it&#8217;s the big time now that it&#8217;s on the <i><b>Internet<\/i><\/b> and important people like him or her can see it.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I am a little cheesed off, but those sellouts moved out of Wisconsin.  Dang them all to New York!<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2003_08_24_volokh_archive.html#106224797056905936\" target=\"new\">The Volokh Conspiracy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN&#8217;s got a story talking about how The Onion is continuing to thrive. No, check that, it&#8217;s TheOnion.com that&#8217;s the real story, even though: Today newspaper ads from its five regional editions still account for 50 percent of the company&#8217;s revenue, compared with about 30 percent from Web advertising. (The rest comes from book proceeds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21472,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/21472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}