"Because the value of the paper is less than the effort carry it to the recycle bin."The perfect opening for me to share one of my pet peeves. Every day the green hypocrites of the powers that be trash my planet both figuratively and literally. Then the Goebbels gang guilts the masses into cleaning up the mess for nada.
Bump.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004023404
Len Downie Co-Leading New Effort on ‘Reconstruction’ of Journalism
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004023438
Harvard Report Finds Easier Legal Path for Non-Profit Newspapers
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004023383
Gannett Profit Falls by 53%
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/papers/can_nonprofits_save_journalism_fremont-smith.pdf
Can Nonprofits Save Journalism?
http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2009/10/19/daily5.html
Herald publisher predicts near-term industry shift to paid online model
Yup, you nail it again my friend.
As I said to another esteemed poster on a different thread concerning autos et al?
They'll slowly & incrementally continue removing choiceS until one day there's only one. Theirs.
And those masses STILL won't have figured it out.