Pittsburgh Will Become Largest Major U.S. City Without Daily Print Newspaper

breitbart ^ | Joshua Caplan

[davikkm]

The city of Pittsburgh will become the largest U.S. city without a daily print newspaper following the Post-Gazette’s announcement that it is ceasing publication of its Tuesday and Saturday editions. The 232-year-old Post-Gazette announced in June that it planned to scale back print editions of its daily newspaper, while leaving the schedule of its digital version unchanged.

“It’s the year 2018, and with the way people review and expect to review information and news, we think we’re doing the right thing,” said Block Communications Inc. vice president of legal and government affairs Keith Wilkowski in a statement. “We will be publishing a (digital) newspaper seven days a week.”

“[F]rankly, we reach more people via online than through the print publication,” the executive added.

The Post-Gazette’s editorial employee union president Mike Fuoco slammed the decision to cut back daily print edition of the paper, suggesting the move would be a breach of “public trust.”

“We’re very sorry the company has made this decision. We’re very sorry for the people who cherish having print newspapers seven days a week, and there’s a lot of people like that,” a disappointed Fuoco wrote. “I know that it’s a difficult time for newspapers, but I think that the Blocks need to also recognize that there’s a public trust and a public responsibility that they have by owning a newspaper that’s been in existence for 231 years,” he added. “I would hate to think that they’re abandoning that legacy.”

[Lent]

Well then they are blessed.

[Menehune56]

I’m a news junkie and I can’t remember the last time a read an actual “newspaper.”

[vette6387]

“Maybe printed newspapers will be obsolete.”

Given that they don’t really provide “the news,” I’d say it’s a good move because is spares our forests. Now, if we could only get rid of all the newsprint weekly adverts. The only good news in our neighborhood is that they show up the night before our recycled stuff is picked up, so I walk from the mailbox to the recycle bin and the $hit never gets through my front door. I don’t think being in the newsprint business is going to be a long-term winner for employment either. All the news I need is in FR anyway.

[V_TWIN]

Ask a 20 year old if they know what a typewriter is.

[DoughtyOne]

Good luck. I’m behind you all the way.

[miniTAX]

Indeed, like most big city, Pittsburg is a leftist city with a ultra-leftist newspaper. The death, I mean... suicide, of one of them is to celebrate.

[bigbob]

I see this as a good thing.

[Vaduz]

Indeed the LA Times was sole and they still haven’t learned.A failure to under what honest news is has a high price.

[BenLurkin]

Steelers fans don’t know to read anyway. So....

[Don Corleone]

Good. These things are useless except for coupons.

Plenty of coupons are available "On line".

[Dilbert San Diego]

I hear you. I get a lot of news from Free Republican also.

And I appreciate our wide open comments here, as I note more and more news sites are doing away with comments sections.

[Phil DiBasquette]

Was this paper one of the ones that criticized
Trump in lockstep with others about a week or so ago?

Trump curse!
300 socialist rags on the rack
If one of these should happen to fall
299 socialist rags on the rack

[Rapscallion]

I wonder whether the diminishing education system produced a population that cannot read, or whether the gospel of liberal politics so bent the population that they cannot find their way out of the hole, or whether their racist city bureaucrats bankrupted the city, or whether too much time on the dole took away the will to work or earn a living so they could afford a newspaper.

[freedumb2003]

Next up:

Dallas Morning News
LA Times
and finally the death of the rbg of newsprint:
ny times.

[Vigilanteman]

FWIW, the ComPost-Gazette has always been Pittsburgh's lefty paper. Their chief challenger is the Tribune-Review, based in Greensburg, about 40 miles to the southeast. It isn't exactly a conservative paper, but is far more balanced.

It has had a location in Pittburgh for more than the last decade and has been eating their lunch ever since they moved into enemy territory. Those who still like the same lefty pablum of the Post-Gazette can still read it on-line.

[joesbucks]

So what happened to the Tribune Review in the same city? It’s now all digital.

[DaveA37]

At least it’s a start but there are many, many more to go.

[vette6387]

“I note more and more news sites are doing away with comments sections.”

Yes, because if and when the bulk of the citizens of this country actually really understand what the RAT Party wants to do, they will recoil at the thought of the implementation of any of it. The RAT Party never really tells the country what their long-term “vision” is, and they obfuscate by continuing to promulgate an inter racial war. Keeping minorities convinced that “the white man” is f*cking them keeps everyone from gaining a true understanding of RAT “philosophy.”
And Trump has been masterful here in removing the issue of “no minority jobs” as a foil for the RATs to use.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

WSJ costs $4 per copy...
Still going strong.

[Buckeye McFrog]

but I think that the Blocks need to also recognize that there’s a public trust and a public responsibility that they have by owning a newspaper that’s been in existence for 231 years,”

translation: SCROOOOOOO profitability, you owe us.

Reaping what they've sown there.