Posted on 03/10/2018 6:29:48 AM PST by raccoonradio
I’m 60. I haven’t read a newspaper in years. I stopped having them delivered probably 20 years ago.
I still get postcards from the Star and Sickle Tribune offering great deals. I fill them out saying I won’t pay for propaganda. On Sundays they give them away for free at Menards hoping some will sign up.
Advertisers are shifting their bucks to online more and more. Some European papers are free. It is not worth the effort to collect subscription fees and to deliver at homes.
Next day's headlines:
NY Times: World To End Today,Story On Page A19
Wall Street Joural: World To End Today,Markets To Close Early
USA Today: We're History!
Boston Globe: World To End Today,Women And Minorities Hit Hardest
I see newspapers as being like milk....most people buy milk at the store, but a few diehards still like having it delivered.
Marko
Think about the money, trees and energy, we have saved by not having fish wraps delivered to our driveways or mail post boxes for newspapers.
I have posted about two neighbors. One is a retired dentist and one still has a Dental practice.
They get for ‘Free’ in their driveways, the SF Gay Rhonical, the WSJ and the NY Slimes. WSJ and NY Slimes came as part of a package when their kids were enrolled at the local college. That was over 2 decades ago, and they have no one at home besides themselves. In spite of cancelling and never paying for the SF Gay Rhonical, it is delivered 7 days a week.
The retired dentist still gets free copies of NewsWeak and Slime delivered to his home and his old office that he has not been in for over a decade as per his renter who can’t stop the deliveries. The dentist still working gets the same at home and in his office and has never paid for a copy.
They and I feel that they are listed as subscribers even though they are not, to keep the circulation rates up. I joke with them about fake circulation numbers from the Fake News frauds.
Newsweak is apparently getting investigated for this with fake readers online.
Ha, very good.
Some papers only print about 4 days a week.
Pittsburgh Trib-Review totally online other than a print edition in one area.
Bernie Sanders steals his neighbor’s Washington Post
One can buy a whole roll of Brawny paper towel, lasts a lot longer than a week’s worth of the newspaper to line the cage, and costs merely a fraction, AND, has no print to offend the eyes.
We live in a nice middle class, country club neighborhood. I walk or run my dog with my bike every morning and couldn’t tell you the last time I saw a newspaper in anyone’s driveway. Our neighborhood is full of old people that bought their homes new and even they don’t get the paper anymore.
Home delivery newspapers?
In the day and age of up to the minute and live streaming news from every corner of the world on demand in text or video from reporters or just people who happen to be on the scene or about any subject free in the palm of your hand?
Hello? The middle ages called, they would like their technology back
How many bird cages/pet cages does someone need?
By my late teens I was avidly reading the Globe and the ever transitioning competition.
The Record was for simpletons who were unable to understand the big words in the pompous Globe. The Globe was such an outrageously biased journal that it literally became unreadable for me about 30 years ago. I just wanted to toss it in the trash by page 2.
Too bad because there were a few diamonds in that pit. Jeff Jacoby later was their pet conservative for years but they regularly neutered him. I gave it up by 1991, but here and there would pick up a copy for his sake, He was available on line, might still be.
Few exceptions were the 9-11 editions and later that first World Series win which I sent to Troops in Iraq.
Henry, who is a real piece of work, has propped up Globe rag for years now. That Commie crap should have gone under a decade ago. Now the Herald which increasingly swerved left is doomed. I stopped reading their garbage many months ago.
Newspapers in Boston are dead, but the illusion continues to be maintained, almost certainly for sinister purposes.
I notice young people in new movies and TV shows reading newspapers and I wonder how many people that age actually do read them. I think the directors like the action or something.
Expect Herald home delivery rates to also skyrocket, as are the Globe’s rates. The Herald was recently sold to Digital First Media, which is owned by a wealthy Hedge fund owner. He currently owns 200+ newspaper bought cheap, and now laying off staff faster than subscribers cancel. This results in huge profits for the owner, who cares zero about real news coverage.
The San Jose Mercury News and its Bay Area News Group has laid off 90% of its newsroom staff in the last few years, since being sold to Digital First Media. Every familiar news staff person is gone, laid off or paid off to retire. Nowadays, the Mercury News relieves on that hateful Washington Post for most its editorials. After quickly noting the editorial or article has been provided by WaPo, you can skip to next article. Don’t bother reading its all negative and distorted news.
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2018/02/09/bay-area-news-group-hammered-by-more-layoffs-resignations/
So after the initial layoffs at the Herald, expect much further lay offs over the next several years — until nothing is left. Only the Hedge fund owner gets wealthy off the backs of hard working newspaper people.
Bay Area Newsgroup newsroom staff went from 440 to 40. A shell of a paper, for which they keep raising rates for home subscribers. The renewal rate for each home subscriber seems to be different, and even negotiating offer price significantly downward still results in large increase. Yet other subscribers are given much lower rates — no rhyme or reason. Total inconsistent pricing for renewals. Only cure is to cancel, and maybe get a much better rate. That’s how they operate nowadays. The game the owner plays, and the gullible take their first offer, or even second (high) offer price. Time to go digital for all news and ads.
I must confess to liking the NYT crossword puzzles. Never buy the paper, just wait until the store throws out the old ones and fish out the puzzle.
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I got a chuckle out of that.
It’s a lot to pay for birdcage liner; a roll of paper towels will do just as well and be a lot cheaper.
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