Posted on 08/07/2019 3:21:25 PM PDT by keat
Just spotted this ridiculous headline online in our local McClatchy rag:
The Modesto Bee is replacing Saturday print edition with expanded Friday, Sunday papers
You get less and pay the same. Only Libs could torture a headline like that!
(Excerpt) Read more at modbee.com ...
Less is more.
War is peace.
Ignorance is strength.............
Dinosaur meet asteroid.
Soon, a really big Monday paper will replace the rest of the week!
They’re increasing the chocolate ration from 20 grams to 10 grams!
McClatchy and those dreadful Bee publications could publish once a year and it would be too much.
Rearranging the deck chairs.
Big Brother be praised!...................
Just like grocery items:
was 10 little candy bars for $1
then 8 bars for $1
now 6 bars for $1
..and the customer is not suppose to notice the difference. They do it with everything. Was 14 oz, then 12, then 10, etc.
(And think of all that valuable time you'll save, not having to read that silly, pesky, fake news, Saturday edition!)
Like when Ford killed Mercury but “expanded” the Lincoln line.
IOW, Mercurys are rebranded Lincolns and cost more.
Like Soap Bars and Brillo pads...keep getting smaller
And Saturday is the hole in the middle. Nothing happening other than more Trump bashing.
I think I heard another newspaper, in some other city, was going to publish only Thursday through Sunday. The Sunday paper is still the biggest circulation paper.
But how long will actual printed newspapers be with us?
If I recall correctly, old magazines such as Look and Life gradually cut back publication frequency, before eventually going out of business altogether.
Newspapers may just be in a holding pattern, before the inevitable happens.
to fully comprehend just what crappy management the Bee has,
consider that Modesto and its environs are one of the fastest-growing parts of the country (as San Fransicko Bay Area refugees rush into Modesto area for more affordable living and safer neighborhoods (without shit all over the sidewalks too, ha!)
Because newspaper delivery six days a week is simply more “Modesticated” than 7.
They are trying to move to online editions, but if there in no confidence in the honesty of the content what’s the point? Our paper in NJ is still in print (though I know nobody who has it delivered or buys it); the problem with their website is that it is very clear they are blindly leftist, and you get the real story by reading the comments. When they get too “real”, the comments section are closed for particular stories.
It is funny to see how people type comments to avoid screeners: g uns, ra cist, etc.
Our local paper did the same thing a couple of years ago. The subscription rate did not go down. Then they switched Saturday and Sunday around—no Sunday paper but a large “weekend” edition on Saturday.
Could be worse, the papers in Alabama only run three days a week. A century ago, the guy who owned the newspaper was the rich guy in town. Like Sears stores, they’re disappearing.
No one under 35 has ever read a newspaper.
love that quote. I use it to discuss socialism all of the time.
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