Why buy a newspaper today for the news I read online yesterday? ;-)
Where else can I read unrecognizable accounts of events I attended?
Where else are apostrophes liberally scattered without regard for the rules of grammar?
Where else can I find out aobut upcoming events a couple of days afterwards?
Oh well, I can always read the grocery store ads...
Yes, don’t forget to sign up to post comments at local news web sites, keep it short and original, drives libs nuts, you’ll see.
The local papers stopped doing serious coverage of local events (including major car crashes and criminal activity) a long time ago, happy to simply repackage AP feeds, print syndicated comics and maybe add some sports scores from the high school teams.
I appreciated my local paper until it was bought by some hillbilly conglomerate outfit from Kentucky along with several other Indiana dailys. Mine from the Quayle family and it hasn’t been the same since.
Interestingly enough, our local newspaper is once a week paper. Very small yet concentrates on local news almost exclusively with a little bit of state level stuff. Quite refreshing actually. And they do know the rules for Who, What, Why, Where and When.
The Indianapolis Star used to be a wonderful newspaper when it was owned by the Quayle family.
When it was sold to Gannett, it became a liberal rag with very little content.
It is almost dead.
Good riddance.
The dailies are basically a rehash of the media wing of the Democratic party. I rarely buy one. I get the Sunday paper once in a while, mostly for the funnies, crossword puzzles, & coupons. We do have a few small weeklies which have such as local sports, farm shows, spelling bees, church socials, etc.
I read mine online for free.
The local rag in my area is Florida Today, owned by the failing Gannett organization. It deserves an ignominious death as it is a prattler of leftist, inane, stupid issues and infamously endorsed the Boy Wizard of Kenya as president.
I’ve resided in the area for five years and within six months I cancelled my subscription.
Why aren’t any conservative news organizations popping up to finish off these dying bird cage liners?
Nuff said.
I also fail to appreciate the Associated Press and Barbara Ortutay.
Once access to the public Internet became widely available (especially after the release of Windows 95, which included a built-in point-to-point protocol (PPP) stack to make Internet access really easy to do), the writing was on the wall: people could now get news just as fast as the mass media companies are getting. And with today's "smart" cellphones, people get even get the news on little devices that even science-fiction authors couldn't have imagined 20 years ago.
The media and delivery of said media has changed dramatically and the newspaper format is incapable of changing to compete with instantaneous delivery. In addition, the cost to purchase the format can't compete with accessing free news forums or direct news sites competing for web hits against their sites.
Finally, this media killed any "appreciation" by embracing, wholesale, the liberal agenda years ago to the point where people wouldn't even look at them any more.
Once there was viable competition with superior methods, it was only a matter of time until they began to die out.
Deservedly so, the liberal b@tches...
My bottom line: Why voluntarily pay for something that I disagreed with? I have to pay for enough things that I disagree with, no choice thanks to laws and regulations,so why pay for something that I have control of?
National news has an agenda and lies to push that agenda.
Local news papers are incompetent and still try pushing agendas just
They are both scum.
In other news, "Local paper fail to impress Americans".
My local newpaper is referred to as “That Liberal Gossip Rag” so...