NJ ping
Our local paper posted a story on their blog bragging that they had one of the highest increases in the country in readership. 6%! I went to the link and found the top 10 increases in circulation. #10 only had a .39% increase in circulation and our paper was not listed in the top 10. Come to find out, the 6%(or more) increase was all in online readers who don’t pay to read the paper.
Go back to a single page newspaper with local news and advertising.
Congratulationson you rrecovery Joe. I have been cold turkey from the Atlanta Urinal Constipation for 10 years now.
I cancelled my subscription to the socialist rag Hartford Courant five years ago.
Yesterday I walked by vending machines for the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times and marveled that in my life time the machine price has increased from ten cents to SEVENTY FIVE cents. It’s been at least 5 years since I’ve purchased a copy.
Congratulations!
Ex-Atlanta Journal Constitution reader for many, many years now. Every now and then they leave a free one on my lawn and I put it in the reading room in case we run out of hygiene products.
Their latest pitch is to take a new position of not endorsing candidates, which is a hoot when the daily bias that already exists is taken into account.
AJC left me. They stopped delivering to my area and I really missed the classified and food section.
Then I realized that I could find much better content on the food info online and there isn’t much in the classified except scam work from home ads.
One of my students was raising money for his school band by selling 10-week subscriptions to S. Florida’s liberal rag, the Sun Sentinal. So I gave him the ten bucks to support the band and got the ten weeks of papers which I did not read. The papers continued, but I did NOT re-subscribe. THEN the Sun Sentinal sent a bill for the additional papers. I refused to pay, because I had not re-upped for them. So the Sun Sentinal sent the bill (for $10.00, mind you) to a COLLECTION AGENCY!!!!! I wrote a detailed letter to the collection agency explaining how they were being used by the Sun Sentinel and they promply stopped the harrassment.
I have never actually bought the Star Ledger, though it’s on sale in most newstands around here, and I live in ALlendale NJ, up near the Rockland County NY. border.
I was made aware of Paul Mulshine awhile ago, and looked up some of his columns, and really liked them, UNTIL, I then read a predictable trashing of Sarah Palin from him.
Interestingly, the BERGEN RECORD called only an hour ago, to solicit a renewal of a subcription we cancelled a year ago, and they offered the SUNDAY RECORD only at TEN DOLLARS A YEAR, so we took it. That comes to NINETEEN CENTS A WEEK, for a paper that (I think) still sells for $1.50 for the Sunday edition. We cancelled the NY Times many months ago, also, and only get the SUNDAY TIMES. They are in real desperation mode, all of them, and are making these special deals of course ONLY to beef up circulation numbers.
I have never actually bought the Star Ledger, though it’s on sale in most newstands around here, and I live in ALlendale NJ, up near the Rockland County NY. border.
I was made aware of Paul Mulshine awhile ago, and looked up some of his columns, and really liked them, UNTIL, I then read a predictable trashing of Sarah Palin from him.
Interestingly, the BERGEN RECORD called only an hour ago, to solicit a renewal of a subcription we cancelled a year ago, and they offered the SUNDAY RECORD only at TEN DOLLARS A YEAR, so we took it. That comes to NINETEEN CENTS A WEEK, for a paper that (I think) still sells for $1.50 for the Sunday edition. We cancelled the NY Times many months ago, also, and only get the SUNDAY TIMES. They are in real desperation mode, all of them, and are making these special deals of course ONLY to beef up circulation numbers.
I got the Asbury Park Press down my way. Just as bad as the Star Ledger.
Welcome to the light.
Me too!
I cancelled my subscription to The Waco Tribune Herald when they endorsed John Kerry. Right in the President’s own conservative back yard. Then they spent years of angst worrying that Bush seemed to be leaning towards SMU as the site for his library, not local Baylor. Go figure. Then they cancelled Ted Nugent’s column. New ownership claims to be conservative. We shall see. I read online a few times a week to keep up with local news and their editorializing.
I ONLY take the Omaha Weird-Herald for the Sunday Coupons.