[hoosierham]

The local small-town papers here which were once independently owned and published weekly on different days with different political views ,are now all owned and published by an out-of-state family .The papers are of fewer pages,tripled in price,and all favor big government solutions to every perceived problem.Occasionally a token conservative column is published,but the overall editorials are sickening.

Now,the nearby big-city Cincinnati Enquirer announced this week it is cutting pages,paper size,combining sections,and reducing classified ad space.

I suspect the severe downturn in automotive sales is the instant cause,in that car ads seem to have made up a huge portion of the total ads.

[randog]

I suspect the severe downturn in automotive sales is the instant cause,in that car ads seem to have made up a huge portion of the total ads.

I have an aunt that used to be a newspaper editor ("used to be" is the operative phrase here; she bailed out of the industry a few months ago. She made no bones about it--the writing is on the wall, she said). Anyway, she told me that yes, auto ads are a large portion of a local newspaper's income.