Just have more reporters have affairs with sources in exchange for security news leaks. That will keep costs down to compensate for rising newsprint cost.
Ya think he doesn’t know that? tee hee
Trees are happy. Seriously, many states do not apply sales tax to newspapers. Assuming that newsprint does not make up more than 1/3rd the cost of the newspaper, it is just the same as if a state with a 7.5% sales tax applied it to newspapers. States do that kind of expansion all the time. There was no shortage of newspapers lauding expansion of sales tax to, say, auto repair shops when it was applied to labor as well as parts, making a similar cost increase.
[Trump’s tariff on Canadian newsprint is killing US newspapers]
UNBELIEVABLE! Local newspapers were going down the tube long before PRESIDENT TRUMP announced a tariff on Canadian newsprint. Our hometown newspaper is only 5 pages. 10 years ago it had several editions.
Blame higher subscription prices and advertising fees, as well as, LIBERAL CONTENT.
Having once been a paper sales man and in the forest products industry for 35 years - and speaking on raw material costs not the state of media - what killed the US newsprint industry was knee jerk environmentalism that prevented our paper industry from modernizing and growing to compete against countries that had little or no environmental standards. This is why Canada has newsprint to sell and we do not.
Awwwww! my heart bleeds for the radical leftists in charge of newspapers.
Is that what you call A two-fer?
I thought U.S. newspapers had killed themselves.
Cowgrrl Kristi needs to heed the tea leaves and move towards online info
Newspapers dyin’ be good
No, they did that pretty much on their own.
All those that purchase a freaking newspaper raise their hand...
bueller?
bueller?
Perhaps the Timber Pulp industry should find better more advanced things to do with their products...
I would not recommend a trade fight or tariffs with Canada. The largest corrections need to be made with communist China and Germany, some other countries , and ( with sensitivity to its more fragile economy) Mexico
More winning!
Tree huggers should be applauding.
Killing trees to print propaganda is evil.
Print is dead. No one wants to pay for anything anymore.
Also classified ads, want ads, real estate ads, and backpage escort ads are gone so even the ads don’t cover publication costs.
Syndicated circle jerk talking points didn’t do them any favors either.
But ‘Trump’...
And guess who is complaining...a stupid Republican!!
“The bill, introduced by Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., is a response to the 22 percent tariff that the Trump administration has imposed on some Canadian newsprint since the beginning of this year. Noem said that tariff has led to rising costs for local newspapers, and are a threat to their survival.”
There used to be paper mills all over the Midwest, and the west. Even the big mills in Wisconsin are closed now, unable to compete with the dumping from Canada and other countries.
Tough sh....
A dozen House lawmakers have introduced legislation to remove President Trump’s tariffs on Canadian newsprint
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Wow, a whole dozen.
Here’s an idea:
Instead of printing new newspapers, just keep recirculating the old ones — the “news” is always the same anyway:
“Americans outraged by Trump’s Latest Outrage”