Maybe movie theaters should start having newspaper previews.

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In Chicago they now charge 75 cents for a daily paper, and its free online. As the article states, the daily paper is shrinking in size and content, yet the price has risen for a shrinking product. Not sure why someone would want to buy a newspaper just a for movie listing .

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Does anyone beside teens go to the movies these days? I haven't gone to the movies in almost 6 years and I don't miss it one bit.

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just another vital omission of information from the oblivious newspaper editors.

i , for one, travel alot, and dont want to have to get my laptop
out when in a strange city to find the movie times.
it is sad to me that all the really valuable information is being
omitted from our newspapers tomake room for the advertisers and human interest stories.
world news in my hometown paper is reduced to half a page.
i just know there is more going on out there than they print.
in the name of saving themselves a little money, they are committing suicide slowly.
is paper THAT expensive? or are they all just tired of doing it?
this is a lazy society that gets most of their information off the internet, instead of researching anything themselves.
that is sad.

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It is sad. I will admit that half of my career was spent in the newspaper business so I am a little prejudice. But I do think Dan Rather was right on the money when his recent article talked about the real value of the newspaper as the nations watch dog. We are going to be very sorry when the newspapers as we know them no longer exist. There are too many rascals out there to not have someone paying attention to their misdealings.

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If all the newspaper editors were like our hometown newspaper I'd be tickled to see it go.

I am involved with independent film and I ask him if he would do a review of the movie I was promoting. He says sure. It's been since December when I asked him and still nothing and the only reason I asked him to do this review was to bring attention to a Angel Give I was doing only for the year 2009 as I was going to give monies toward the purchase of any DVD sale.

Talk about an chump.

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Our family still uses the newspaper for getting showtimes on movies.

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Movie Listings on-line ? Isn't there a way where we can also have breakfast, lunch & dinner on-line, too ? How about actual physical sex on-line ? Or sleep ? i also hate to over the river and through the woods to granny's house on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Isn't there a way where i can do that stuff on-line ?
My goal is to live my life on-line and have no contact or releationships with actual people.

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Actually, we've increased our newspaper in the past few years. We get the local paper and the Wall Street Journal on a daily basis. Excellent writing in the WSJ.
And on Saturday I get Barron's with these papers, too. From what I can tell more financial awareness in the U.S. is a must.

Someday I may disconnect my cable TV and even disconnect my internet.

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Has everyone forgotten that not everyone has a computer? Many don't even own one and, more than you might imagine, don't own one by choice. These people are missing out more and more on the world around them.

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What are senior citizens who don't own computers suppose to do? My widowed neighbor & her friends go to at least one movie every weekend, sometimes two. None of them own a computer so they all rely on the newspaper for movie times. This is a truly ridiculous move on the part of the paper. (One of our local papers tried to stop carrying the daily TV grid & was forced to put it back in the paper by popular demand. Again, there are too many people out there without computer access.)

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Why not just shut them down all together.
Pretty soon classifieds will be a thing of the past, now no movie listings? I get all my store coupons by direct mail. Why do I need a paper. Oh yeah,,, the bird cage.

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I think that it's, in part, to the way the newspapers run the listings too. Some papers won't differentiate between screens when a movie is running on more than one. Kind of hard to read when the times are all squished together. If the paper that runs each screen's times seperately isn't available, I will use online theatre listings. Clear, simple to read listings for each screen is what's needed to keep people interested in using newspaper listings over internet.

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The newspapers are still operating like they did years ago. In Chicago, we have two papers, and neither one has figured out we now have digital TV. They do not list all the new stations.

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Who cares what the elite offer in cinema. What they offer is the future for you and I, the surfs for them. The scumbag elitists. I never watch a new movie anyway as we have all these skanks and have for some time promoting their agenda which is really enslavement of the populace. Not THEM, they hole up in their palaces ect while you and I have to deal with the streets. Hollyweird are low level bottom feeding scum suckers. They for the most part put out trash as they are trash. Who cares, i hope the hollywierd elite shrivel and die away.

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I don't much care about the movie listings, but it will be a sad day when there are no more news papers. God help us when we have to rely on the crap they put on the Internet. I need my Washington Post! And I don't want to have to read it online. I want to take it wherever I go!!!!

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Who buys a newspaper? Most are so left leaning, even the comic strips are a snooz. Andy Cap was replaced for some strip about a kitty because Andy Cap glorified drinking, smoking and disrespect of women. He was funny, but not PC. Guess they never heard Rap music!

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Movie title listings are a lot like newspaper headlines...misleading.
Brief movie reviews would be more accurate to help us decide what we want to leave home to go to see.
It's done with made for TV movies and helps me plan what channel to watch and when to plan to do so.
It would aid popcorn and drink sales at the theater too.

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I work for a newspaper and my family and I belive that if they place an ad in the paper I work for we don't buy it.

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