Talk:NewsGuild-CWA

Move
I moved this page to The Newspaper Guild to reflect the full name. (TNG)--Bookandcoffee 20:48, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

"Depression within the business" paragraph should be rewritten
I can't understand this paragraph at all except that it implies the number of printed newspapers in the U.S. has decreased? It's so poorly written that one wonders how it ever got posted.

For example this sentence reads like someone in elementary school wrote it:

"Over the decades, an unexpected outcome happened in 2002 as only 1,457 were in the United States....",

"An unexpected outcome happened?" What was it and what was unexpected about it?? In addition the entire paragraph has no citation. Once again Wikipedia proves itself to be a third rate encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.252.183.253 (talk) 18:53, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Here is the unreferenced section, which has been removed:

Depression within the business

 * The impact on print media workers of the industry in the past few decades has changed in unexpected ways. In 1950, exactly 1,774 daily newspapers were in the United States. Over the decades, an unexpected outcome happened in 2002 as only 1,457 were in the United States, showing an 18 percent decrease. During the same period, the quantity of newspapers with circulations raised more than 250,000 increased by 8.5 percent, but the total newspaper circulation was declining. The amount of daily newspapers dropped while of large newspapers showed popularity with an increase. This caused a  loss of members members. A poll was announced and polled people in late February 2004 which queried members of the Guild if they knew anyone that was laid off. Of those who were surveyed, 76 percent responded that they knew of at least one colleague who had lost their job in the past five years. As well as one of the five reported that they needed to leave by themselves as it was risky.

Statistics must be supported by reliable sources. — Rgdboer (talk) 02:29, 13 January 2019 (UTC)