Posted on 05/17/2004 9:45:30 AM PDT by whereasandsoforth
Dateline: Yesterday -The Dallas Morning News had a booth set-up inside my local Kroger store for the purpose of giving away free copies of the Sunday paper. I haven't subscribed to The DMN in years, but I never remmeber them being so generous at any time in the past. Is their circulation really on a downslide?
I refused the copy offered to me, as did a woman before me and an elderly couple after me. I guess the word "free" just doesn't have the impact it did once. I did not offer any "editorial comment" to the young woman behind the booth. I'm sure she was "just doing her job". Seeing her there, it came to me that we really are witnessing the decline and fall of the print media. I surmise that this decline and fall can be blamed in unequal parts to advancing technologies and the press' utter lack of self-control while advancing their liberal agenda.
Well, that's today's report. Thanks for tuning in.
I keep finding the Houston Chronical in my front yard. I don't subscribe. I hate having to pick it up and throw it away...
DMN has been doing this in Krogers for about a year. It's really sad, I hardly see anyone take a paper. Of course, it's usually because if you show even the slightest interest in accepting the "free" paper you get a subscription pitch crammed down your throat.
Also, in downtown Dallas they give away a free paper called "Quick" which is a 14-16 page collection of news stories, perfect for reading on the train or in the break room. Small, compact... and truly FREE!
I miss the Dallas Times Herald..
I love the FR Grammar Patrol. Sometimes missstakes are made for the fun of it.
Yah, I had a lot of fun making Miss Stakes, once...
Hit the nail square on the head.
I decided to drop my subscription after 16 years and got a refund of my last prepayment after the DMN decided, editorially, that it could not support any marriage amendment to the U.S. constitution. A "difficult decision," the editors pretended. It's been sad watching the degeneration of this formerly strong conservative paper.
Based on the above, guess I'm not the only one that feels that way.
"IT should never have happened,... not our way of doing business..someone got carried away.." you name it..and the e-mails also continued, as well as snail mails..Finally, four days later, the publisher reached me at the office, apoligized agian, and as what he probably viewed at the ultimate sign of contrition, offered me a year's free subscription for my inconvenience. I laughed politiely, and told him that the reason I didn't subscribe was that his product had nothing to offer..but I told him that I would take him at his word, that he would provide a free subcription to someone who couldn't afford it...
BTW, a few months after that, we enrolled in the "do not call program"..which has probably cut down telephone solicitations by 95%..It great. I was wondering if givign someone a free product, constitutes a "relationship" allowing them to cal you?
Hell, at least it's not the Boston Globe. I have to take a shower after handling that thing.
hmm, I think I'll start using the poop scooper we have for the dog....
The DMN is on a downward spiral for a variety of reasons the most serious IMHO is the havoc wrought in the Comic Section. Every Sunday I am forced to unwrap the Comics. Lasik Surgery ads and other foofah encapsulate this section. The Sunday Reader contains less editorial content and more propoganda. If it wasn't for Prince Valiant, Garfield and Charlie Brown.....
I don't. They were to the left of the DMN(which used to be a decent paper.) In fact I'm guessing that many of their staff migrated over to the DMN and Startlegram. And never forget that the DTH employed that slimy lying prissy blowhard sports-gossip columnist Skip Bayless(though the liar was a bit ahead of his time, showing where the media was headed.)
I seem to recall noticing the DMN taking a decided slant to the left across the board about the same time that they began running numerous pro-gay special rights editorials, about a decade or so ago. IIRC it was right after the gal took over the editorial leadership (Lee Collum?) She had her country clubber socially-liberal 'white man's burden', her agenda was to bring Dallas into the 'world class status', which of course could only be done by adopting 'cosmopolitan' attitudes and 'sophistication'.
Here in Denton County they're trying to "bundle" the DMN and Denton Retched-Chronicle together - for $2!
I go to a convenience store instead - I just get the Morning Spew for the classified adverts, and don't need additional birdcage lining material.
Which one of those caved in on Joe Bob Briggs? I can't remember now.
I reread your mistake and still fail to see any humor in it.
I don't think I would have taken a freeeeee paper either.In fact, it irks me no end when I have to pick their freebies up out of my yard.
And I don't have a pet bird to put it to a good use, either. :^)
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