If any of you believe this statement, we’ve got some beach front property in Nebraska we’d like to sell you too! Simply put, this is an agreement these newspapers have reached to survive in an age of the internet, twitter, and social networking.

So let’s get this straight, The Oklahoman and the Tulsa World are combining to provide us more news that we’re already not reading! Granted, the country is in a recession and ad revenues are obviously down, but the dinosaur media’s problems are much deeper than a temporary lull in the economy. To put it in a nutshell, folks are finding alternative sources of news because they don’t trust the reporting. How can anyone trust the Tulsa World when the publisher contributes to a politician’s (Drew Edmondson) campaign during the campaign! Both papers’ web presence and anemic use of new media techniques are pathetic. Actually, they give pathetic a bad name. If you need some help fellas to help you try and survive in this new paradigm, (what do you think of that word? Impressed?) give us a call (314 432-4010) we’ll even give you a discount on our consultancy fees.

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*If there is anyone with vision in Oklahoma who can see the enormous opportunities this opens for new media outlets like OKPNS, give us a call too and we’ll share our ideas to capitalize on the reporting vacuum left by this consolidation.

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