[Presbyterian Reporter]

I do not know the political leanings of this Youngstown newspaper, but if it like most newspapers, most conservatives have become fed up with the leftist slant we read in the newspapers.

[Flavious_Maximus]

I will rejoice when the rag Allentown Morning Call goes out of business. They are now owned by the Chicago Tribune.

[dougherty]

Too bad, so sad. Let them learn how to code.

[jmaroneps37]

One hundred and fifty years of lies and now it’s over! Good news whenever a rag goes out of business. Nice news to start a week off.

[1Old Pro]

but if it like most newspapers, most conservatives have become fed up with the leftist slant we read in the newspapers.

Exactly, newspapers and soon many other product sellers will find out that openly and hatefully opposing 50% of America is not a good marketing scheme.

[CIB-173RDABN]

It is said that when there is only one lawyer in a town, he will go broke. When there are two lawyers they both get rich.

Same with newspapers. With one newspaper, it presents just one point of view. A second newspaper can balance out that view and they keep each other honest.

Driving competition out is not always the best business decision.

Today you can pick up a newspaper from anywhere in the nation and they will all speak with one voice. Owners of newspapers told over half their potential customer we don’t want you as a customer and so their customers found other sources for their news.

[Nateman]

Die you leftist lying RAT party propaganda hacks die! Another one bites the dust!

[KC Burke]

I have wondered if there is a major conservative newspaper left?

The WSJ doen’t count and they aren’t “conservative” in most aspects anyway.

There used to be that family owned paper in NH somewhere.

[yuleeyahoo]

If you want news, go online or listen to the radio. If you want history, read a newspaper or a magazine.

[Zathras]

The major $$$ income for newspapers now is Political $$$.
Paid political ads from both parties.
If they can get both parties fighting...they make more money.

[kaehurowing]

If it’s like our “local paper,” all it does is reprint stories from the New York Times and Washington Post.

[Richard Kimball]

There are multiple reasons for the demise of the daily newspaper, but most of them go back to the fact that online is faster, has more info and is cheaper.

When I was a kid, newspapers were THE place for movie listings, buying and selling cars and other items, stock market prices, sports, and comics.

All those are gone. Nobody buys a newspaper to see what's showing and the showtimes, and movie theaters don't advertise there, anymore. Nobody checks stock prices in a newspaper. Nobody checks car prices in the newspaper. The comics keep getting smaller, and the last "must read" newspaper comic was Calvin and Hobbes, which left in 1995. New talent isn't going into the newspaper business.

The newspapers are down to covering the local business scene, local non-professional sports teams (high school and college) and obituaries.

They can still survive in one zip code towns, but to do so, they have to focus on local stuff and keep the staff really lean.

Best quote on Superman: "The most unrealistic part of the movie was a guy making a living as a reporter."

[Buckeye McFrog]

Can The Flint Journal be far behind?

[adorno]

Big and small newspapers and magazines have been going out of business and/or losing readership.

HOWEVER!!!!!!

Liberals have been very active and very good at making the transition to the “NEW MEDIA” online, where their readers have followed. They still control the majority of the online media and the majority of radio and TV outlets.

So, they DON”T feel the losses and have actually made gains overall.

[VanShuyten]

This story reminds me of another post on FR a week or two ago about this snowflake who went $200,000 in debt to get a BA in journalism and an MA in “social journalism” and now doesn’t think he can pay it back, or even feels obligated to do so.

I say NO to taxing me to pay off loans to people with such little sense.

[USS Alaska]

My local paper 'The Tribune-Review' was once a solid conservative paper, and the owner, Mr. Mellon, died and his progeny, being given everything, are hard core lefties, and the rag has gone down hill and is at the bottom of the pile.

If it were my decision, I'd cancel it, yesterday, but Mrs. Alaska keeps looking for my obituary and won't cancel the paper until she sees it.

The paper has to be losing money, they have cut back so much, that once or twice a week, they run the comics in black and white to save a few bucks of colored ink.

Without the ads, there probably aren't more than 10-12 pages of print.

SAD!

[shanover]

Die in the darkness fake snooze!

[MichaelCorleone]

I don’t know either, but I hate to hear/read of people losing their jobs. Many of them are over 40 and/or have children or spouses with serious health problems and need the insurance.

it can be devastating to families.

[Jack Hammer]

Goo hoo. McDonald’s is always hiring.

[RaginRak]

The Vindicator was a leftist rag...attacking Trump every day on the editorial page..with foul cartoons and opinions,,slanting news stories into negative reports on Trump. Tim Ryan represents the area, I quit buying it years ago.. I hope the nearby Warren Tribune Chronicle,,,which is somewhat conservative...picks up the slack

[who knows what evil?]

Good riddance!