Posted on 08/28/2018 9:51:55 AM PDT by 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.”
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And I suggest the 'breach of public trust' began decades ago when papers opted for propaganda and virtue signaling.
The media seem to think they are exempt from the The Dog Food principle in terms of market forces.
Unfortunately, I've seen numerous commenters make the risible claim that because a member of the so-called conservative Block family owns the PG and has installed his own editor that the PG is now the National Review. No paper still employing race-obsessed Tony Norman is in the same galaxy as conservatism.
“I’m a news junkie and I can’t remember the last time a read an actual “newspaper.””
The only time I see one is in a waiting room somewhere. If it’s today’s paper the news is 1-2 days old.
Supposedly it swerved to the right s bit?..fired lefty cartoonist Rob Rogers.
People get info from many other sources...Net/phones, TV, radio, and advertising goes there.
(Mostly online!)
1993:NY Times buys Boston Globe for $1.1 B
2013: NYT sells Globe to Red Sox owner John Henry, $70 million
Both Boston papers (Globe, Herald) are printed daily...nr Providence RI.Globe distributes the Herald.
Early deadlines...Red Sox game ends before 10 PM.Next day in Herald scoreboard:”New York at Boston, late”
You can get info a lot sooner online.Weather, news, stocks, sports, arts, all online and more immediate.
The “Letters to the Editor” has been replaced by Net messageboards, Facebook, and Twitter.
New Orleans paper publishes maybe 3 times a week though I think there’s a thin tabloid edition available downtown on other days.
Sept 11 2001..eating at a Pizzeria Uno and TVs show coverage of the attacks.My morning Boston Herald had, “Will Michael Jordan try baseball again?” Things changed so fast and my paper was in another world.
It’s hard to have too many papers in one day when they just print the liberal side of every single thing that goes on. The papers would be twice the size if they actually printed what’s really going on. Our paper, the Dallas Morning News, just reprints articles from the NYT and WPost. The letters to the editor are nasty anti-Trump letters, Brennan is great, Mueller is impecable, McCain is wonderful, Trump is a scumbag letters. They obviously don’t have the advantage of getting the other side so they remain ignorant by only reading the DMN.
>>WSJ costs $4 per copy...
Still going strong.<<
Generally speaking, WSJ has good content and little fake news (although they have been faked out).
Not going to happen. Too many undocumented immigrants from Mexico, Central/South America, and other $h*tholes depend on the TIMES for their toilet paper. It would pose a hardship on them.
Of course the Muslims couldn't care less.
Sounds a lot like liberal-speak meaning; No one buys our rag because we lie like a rug.
lying leftist fake stream enemedia roosters coming home to roost ...
you could be right there
Pittsburgers will have to get their lies somewhere else.
More winning!
Hopefully every sanctuary city will follow this good example.
Cancel your local fish wrap subscription to save the trees and to MAGA!
Can Los Angeles be next? PLEASE!
I’m hoping Houston’s next.
Every Tuesday (today) and Friday, we get ads in the mail and a load of coupons delivered by mail.
I have posted about one of our younger relatives, who crushed her local fish wrap about 15 years ago.
It was very liberal and became even more liberal after she and her family moved into one of the many new bedroom communities.
She had/has her own business, and the fish wrap wanted a ton of money to run a small weekly ad. It was very liberal and her husband cancelled their subscription.
Several of her neighbors and other friends cancelled their subscriptions. They told the editor/publisher to stop the liberal bs and to have a weekly fish wrap with local news and non political with a couple of sections of ads. It would be free and could be mailed or delivered.
They pushed this concept in their local businesses and neighborhoods. The editor/publisher told them to back off.
They just doubled their efforts, and in about 6 months the paper stopped being an expensive Daily and became a free weekly as per our relative’s suggestion.
It now does a great job with local news and has two sections of ads at a reasonable ad price for the local businesses.
The big grocery chain stores and local stores, now use this medium to get their ads out.
It arrives on Thursday with ads/coupons/deals for the upcoming weekend.
+1
“Yes at best 2/3 the size they used to be in terms of page size and far less pages...and .75 or 1.00 for the daily. Makes little sense to buy the paper.”
Our local fish wrap is about half the size (square inch) per page and home delivery just went over $1/day. With 3 price increases in a little over a year.
I told my wife, if she wanted the fish wrap, she could pay for it her self. It does do a good job on the local news.
They bash Trump with AP articles, cartoons and editorials from the Compost or Sac Bee on a daily basis.
My wife negotiated a yearly price under 300 $’s. We will see how her loyalty goes with the price increases next year.
Trump has increased the tariff’s on news wipe paper, and it is killing the newspaper industry.
How many there can read?
Making fun of the headline ambiguity:
So, if a city loses it’s newspaper, it grows dramatically?
Now if we could just make the local news channels go bust.
Cut your cable and go to Sling Blue as your tv provider.
Sling Blue besides not carrying ESPN/ABC/Disney in most areas does not carry local tv stations. We pay $5 per month for CBS not the local CBS. There are about 5 CBS shows we watch.
So the local NBC is not carried by Sling Blue and ABC is not carried as noted above.
We are also saving over $150/month after cancelling our Comcast.
Good.
Print fake news media is disappearing and no one is missing it.
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