Posted on 07/29/2017 8:15:55 AM PDT by buckalfa
Faced with the need to cut costs, newspapers are divesting themselves of their most valuable assets — their properties
Which companies print the advertising flyers for local stores and eateries? Also, the multiple store/product mags?
Our mailbox is full of them.
I think it’s more a matter of delaying the inevitable, at least with large scale newspaper production. I used to love getting the paper and reading through it. Now,I have gotten so used to using my laptop or my iphone to get the same news immediately.
It doesn’t help when the papers they do sell these days are printed on smaller sheets of newsprint, with just a few total sheets. The entire newspaper looks like a Sunday Entertainment Section used to look. About as thick and flimsy. The price has gone from 50 cents a few years ago to either $1. or $1.25 for a few shrunken sheets of paper.
Some things are lost when not getting the local paper.
I don’t keep up with City Council, or learn about new businesses the way I used to.
Ping
This is sad. At least in part, it is of their own doing.
I used to be a loyal Denver Post reader and heck I even delivered the Post as a kid, yet in the past 15 years or so it has become completely unreadable. They have chosen a format that is ultra-liberal at times.
The Post sets up stands in our local supermarket handing out free samples of the newspaper and I have politely given the person my opinion. I always get lip service and I doubt that my comments are ever fed back to the Post’s management. It is clearly a decision from the top to be ultra-liberal and those at the top are in denial.
Anyway, if the newspaper was at least objective and offered both opinions on an issue, I might still subscribe. But this will never happen.
So long, Denver Post. I knew you well; back when it was a good newspaper.
Our little city Democrat newspaper quit being political.
For a week.
They just can’t help themselves.
They just know they’re smarter than everyone.
I would subscribe to print news but it is so infested with liberal diatribes they only serve to infuriate me.
Tv radio and print aren’t dying because of ‘other’ things like vidya-games and facebook or twitter, they are dying because the public tuned out of their worthless and fraudulent echo chamber.
And the brick and mortars of old started pushing the liberal glbt dad’s-no-good agenda and are dying too.
Medium is the message.
The newspapers have become tax write-offs for the rich liberals that own them.
Interesting, although it is pretty much a one trick pony to sell off the company assets. You're right, it just delays the inevitable.
Haven’t really read a paper since the Rocky Mountain News folded. Can’t stand the comPost. They used to throw thing in my driveway on Sunday to boost their “circulation”.
soulless 21st century architecture always looks like it was ripped off from Albert Speer’s Welthauptstadt Germania and modeled with Legos.
“Which companies print the advertising flyers for local stores and eateries? Also, the multiple store/product mags?”
usually, local newspaper presses print that stuff; it’s practically the only thing they’re making money on these days.
“The Post sets up stands in our local supermarket handing out free samples of the newspaper and I have politely given the person my opinion.”
newsprint is valuable for packing material and putting under your car when you change oil, so i always accept the free samples. a free trial subscription would be even better: free packing material delivered to your doorstep!
I tried the freebie once. Didn’t even remove the rubber band before I tossed it in the trash.
Short term benefit - long term disaster - - classic paradigms of addictions... and financial death.
Hitting the delete button and or the send to trash button is far easier than taking the old newspaper to the garage and remembering what color bin it goes in and then taking it to the curb once a week
Perhaps this would not be happening if they actually PRINTED NEWS, instead creating it.
Yes, I’m sure they were throwing the paper in your driveway to boost circulation.
I was in the newspaper business many years ago. I was a carrier as an adult, as well as working in the office.
I don’t know how it is nowadays with internet subscribers and interview viewers, but back then, the papers lived and died by the circulation numbers, because those numbers determined advertising rates.
When I was a carrier, there was always pressure to sign up new subscribers on our routes. And part of that was just what you describe, giving us extra papers to distribute.
While there were numbers tracked on the paid subscriptions, and then numbers tracked of giveaways, the grand total was the key number which management wanted to inflate, so as to inflate the ad rates.
As carriers, we were encouraged to keep delivering to non paying customers, as a certain number paid their subscription late or not at all. The non payment unfortunately came out of the carrier’s pockets. But, this technique helped keep circulation numbers up.
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