Posted on 12/21/2009 2:08:50 PM PST by Nachum
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Washington Times says it will publish its last Sunday edition this weekend.
The newspaper made the announcement Monday, saying it will produce Monday through Friday editions that focus on its "distinctive news and opinion content."
The new print edition will be sold for $1 at retail outlets and newspaper boxes in the Washington area. The current weekday edition is 50 cents and Sunday's paper costs $1.
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Too bad...sincerely.
bummer... everyone is cutting back these days but the government...
It hasn't been delivered the past three days due to the snow storm but now I find out no more Sunday edition. SHOOT!
I have been a bit disappointed since Pruden retired as they seem to have been stuffing the paper with more articles from the leftist AP and they make me want to puke.
But the news will be around a week old?
This is very, very sad. I have subscribed for years. First they quit having a Saturday paper, and now this.
Sure it’s too bad for the people who will be affected but who on FR would be crying if the same announcement was being made by the LA Times or WaPo?
The point is, print news is dying and while I won’t speculate about how many papers will survive and for how long, it’s clear that the forces affecting this industry are not determined purely by the editorial slant. In fact you might say the conservative papers might be more impacted by the advent of the “new media” such as the internet. The most successful newspaper, the WSJ, has long recognized that content isn’t free and their business model will probably be copied by others as they try to chart a sustainable course.
Too bad its not the NY Times or Wash Compost.
The point is, print news is dying
Maybe if they would just report the news and not try to make the news by adding lies and bias more people would read and buy their rags.
After hiring John Solomon from the Washington Lying Thieving Post as their new executive editor, the paper started to list left. Mr. Solomon is now gone, but he left the paper in disarray.
We canceled our subscription after Mr. Solomon came on board, as the paper, always a flawed entity, became noticeably more leftist.
Newspapers need to stop giving their news on the internet for free and charge for their content similiar to WSJ.
Really too bad. The Washington Times started up in May 1982. I was stationed in Germany and first subscribed in September that year. What with all the demonstrations and Baader-Meinhof and the stupid Greens over there, the W.T. was like oxygen.
Didn’t stop my subscription until 2005 and read it online. Its liberal foes will blame this on the Unification Church but that entity never ran W.T.’s editorial content. IMO, it’s part of the general slow death of daily print media, though I would much, much rather pick up and read a newspaper than read the same copy online.
Still fun to recall how Katharine Graham, Ben Bradlee and “Sexy Sally” Quinn, three truly evil people, wished W.T. and its staff dead during the Reagan years.
Those times and the Washington Times will be missed.
BTW, my Dad was assigned to the Pentagon between Vietnam tours. At home we read The Evening Star, as the WaPo was already firmly in the camp of the enemies of the U.S.
Well that’s too bad. It’s at least a decent paper, and losing the Sunday edition just lessens their impact.
I’m sorry to hear about this.
Maryland PING!
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