PING!
Same thing happened to our local newspaper
Newspapers have always been more costly than the price reflects. They relied heavily on advertisers to make their money. This seems high. I wonder what the price is for a yearly subscription.
Newspapers? Well, I may have to buy a Sunday paper soon to act as a catch all for Mrs rktman’s acrylic art pours and resin. Other than that, I really don’t care if they all fold. Does that make me a bad person? 🤣
I couldn’t honestly say for sure. The Houston Comical has been a “MUST AVOID AT ALL COSTS” in this home for years. And I would say that they would have to pay me much more than $4.50 to take it.
Our paper also reduced the size of it’s pages. They’re only about two thirds the size they used to be.
It used to be that every house had a sunday paper delivered. Now, only about 5% have a sunday paper in their drive way.
I think we cancelled our subscription 15 maybe 20 years ago.
Nothing shocks me anymore.
Half the country believes everything the left tells them.
This ship of fools is hand drilling holes in the hull.
maybe the price of recycled toilet paper went up...
They are stealing from the elderly with that price. They are the only ones that still get a paper. If drug companies did this...the newspapers would cry foul!
Our local (York, PA) papers’ — daily and Sunday — ad space, per column inch, is easily as expensive as the NYT’s ad space. Ridiculous.
Same here. The Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) is $3 or $4 for the daily edition. It’s still four sections, but they’re rarely more than 6 or 8 pages. The editorial page is nothing but thoughtless, knee-jerk leftism. Letters too, with only an occasional exception. And yes, the price of newspapers would be off the charts if not for advertisers.
That is crazy expensive. Even the WSJ or the financial times don’t cost that (at least last time I looked)
That said I have seen a bunch of small local newspapers springing up in my area, it really surprises me
What is this ‘newspaper’ thing you speak of?
In the 90s and early 2000s read the top fold in the newstand waiting on the morning train. Have not bought a newspaper in 20 years.
I wouldn’t have been shocked at that on a Sunday paper. On a Monday paper - yes, I would have had sticker shock. I haven’t looked at one recently, but now I am curious.
But much thinner than it used to be.
Recently they've dropped down to only 5 copies a week instead of 6, and they've completely removed the obituaries. Stupid. Most people who would buy a print paper do so only to look at the obituaries.
Our local paper was reduced in number of pages, overall dimensions and font size, making it practically unreadable for my elderly mom’s eyes, and this was years ago. I didn’t bother with reading the paper long before that. My father loved to get the morning paper, lay it out on the coffee table and read almost every page (maybe not the sports section), especially the classifieds.
“I really haven’t paid much attention to print edition newspapers for years... “
That is the key quote... nobody has been buying them, and so they’re all going out of business...