[Brooklyn Attitude]

“The News & Eagle, with a circulation of 10,000, lost 162 subscribers who canceled the paper”.

They only lost about 1.6% of their subscriptions and they are whining about it. Should have been 50%.

[stagline]

I did not renew the subscription to my own town’s turning left wing rag until it expired because there was no refund and the paper was somewhat useful on the floor during wall painting.

[KittenClaws]

They only lost about 1.6% of their subscriptions and they are whining about it. Should have been 50%.
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Many moons ago, I had several informal e-mail exchanges with the relatively new editor of our local paper. We spoke about how he was turning the conservative paper into a left-leaning rag, though I did not use that term.

Our final conversation ended (as closely as I can recall) as follows:

EDITOR: “If you disagree with the editorials and other changes so much, how come you keep subscribing?”

ME: “ We have a very old dog sir. Every morning since she was a puppy she has gone outside, picked up the paper and brought it to my husband. It still brings her joy to do so, even with her arthritic limbs and that is the only reason we subscribe.

[\/\/ayne]

“The News & Eagle, with a circulation of 10,000, lost 162 subscribers who canceled the paper”.

They only lost about 1.6% of their subscriptions and they are whining about it. Should have been 50%.

I think a great newspaper protest would be on a Saturday so lots of working people can attend. I don't even have to suggest signs, there are so many obvious ones. Preparation would be important, though. Someone local could cull a list of lies from that particular newspaper with story and dates. Also a list of what's censored like post abortion stress in women. Just enough to fit on one two sided sheet of paper easy to hand out. (Or they could make it as many pages as they feel are right. Just remember it's easy for simple journalists to be overwhelmed.)

Also have as many copies of liberal news media bias books or other books exposing leftist scandals not reported as can be collected. If a smirking editor, columnist, reporter or other leftist newspaper employee comes around to ask "golly gee whiz, what's wrong, we never tell lies" hand him or her the list and a few books.

The kicker would be a collection box of newspaper cancellation requests pre-printed. Use social media and news talk radio to have people come down and fill out a protest form to cancel subscriptions. At the end of the protest deliver the box or send it return receipt requested. Also call advertisers and ask them to protest newspaper lies on that day. For some businesses the newspaper's a staple but if they lie all the time it makes advertisers look like liars, too.

[meatloaf]

It was the loss of ad money that hurt them.

[jonascord]

"They only lost about 1.6% of their subscriptions and they are whining about it. Should have been 50%."

Why arer you making the assumption that only 162 subscribers canceled? This is the NYT. They lie. About everything, all the time. There is no way to tell what the truth is.

The local newspaper is not going to admit they lost hundreds of subscribers, that things are going into the septic system, daily, since that would prompt their remaining advertisers to panic. Funeral homes are big business in small town flyover country, since everyone checks the obits to see if friends and acquaintances have died. Any actual "news", is local, like the police report, weddings, or what has burned down. The rest is filler. Who bothers with what a "reporter" copied off the AP or Reuters, or NBC when you have the Net, and everyone has the Net?

[Spktyr]

Thing is, the circulation number quoted by papers and used to set ad rates as well as determining the paper’s ranking isn’t actually the number of paid subscribers. These days, ‘circulation numbers’ include “sample,” “complimentary,” “school” and other such free/unpaid copies, used to inflate the total number. The real question is what is the *paid* circulation of the paper - i.e., how many people actually pay money for the the paper. That number, these days, is often a tiny fraction of the “total circulation”. 162 subscribers may have been more than 10% of the people still paying for the fishwrap in question.