Posted on 08/01/2018 7:29:19 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
Last I checked we had about a hundred paper mills that made newsprint paper. Most closed. Maybe we can reopen one or two?
Make the paper industry great again.
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To make the paper industry great again we will first need some real journalism.
total bullshit ... syndication savings from dropping all of those comics FAR exceeds the few cents increase of the newsprint tariffs ... this paper is going under because it’s a leftist pile of claptrap and they’re desperately cutting costs everywhere they can, including dropping color printing and most of their comic strips ... and then blaming their own leftist failures on Trump ... cutting most of their comics out will probably finish them off as most likely the bulk of those elderly subscribers kept paying for that rag solely to read the comics ...
Looks like still about 100 paper mills.
Not all make newsprint, and at least some newsprint is from recycled paper. No easy way to review list and see which ones make high quality Charmin or fishwrap.
Maybe they should blame recycling for killing the newsprint industry.
makes about as much sense.
Send a memo to this imbecile: This is not about your personal bank accounts or about your personal interest. Trump told ya there will be some temporary hits here and there. Ya can’t turn around 30 of wide spread government corruption, trade deals and wide open country killing violent borders, without a few people feeling the pain. PS Your paper smells like poop. Sincerely..
You’re absolutely right about the crime rate being the worst in the entire state of North Carolina.
My late brother, my nephew, and two of my cousins were and are in law-enforcement and they could attest to it.
This is where I live and my mother takes the Robesonian and was not happy about this excuse of an editorial as well as losing her Sunday cartoons.
The physical Paper is dead, it will never be the same again.
It’s a stunt... their readers should cancel their subscriptions. Yes, color costs more - but not that much more.
A better solution might be to appeal to the half of their readers most newspapers give the finger to... their conservative neighbors...
It’s getting to the point where President Trump is blamed for more calamity than Global Warming.
Well, there are still those Sunday morning political hack, talking heads shows on TV. They’re always good for a few laughs.
No, don’t think so. Not sure who it’s named for but it is home to the Lumbee Indian tribe....not that that makes any difference.
I salute you for living there (my first cousin recently moved away from Lumberton - after being in fear for her life several times). Thank your family members for being LEO there....very brave.
OH, and thank your mother for not being happy about “this excuse of an editorial....”.
Just drop the whole newspaper.
Has anyone even read Rex Morgan since 1972?
They should have mentioned Snuffy Smith instead. That would have engendered sympathetic ear, no doubt.
“Like other newspapers, it’s taken a hit from shifting reading habits that have led to a decline in advertisers and readers.””
If newspapers were offering a product people wanted, there would be customers. The absence of customers, at the price being charged, suggests potential customers either do not like the product or can obtain higher value product somewhere else.
The demand for powdered wigs was much higher 250 years ago than it is today. The demand for parchment writing paper was much greater 200 years ago than today. The demand for outhouses was much greater 150 years ago than it is today. The demand for passenger rail transportation was much greater 100 years ago than it is today. The demand for men’s suits was much higher 50 years ago than today. The demand for pantyhose was much higher 30 years ago than today. The demand for flip phones was much higher 5 years ago than today. Like all of the products just mentioned newspapers are a product that no longer meet the needs of the marketplace.
Blaming Donald Trump or any other human for the market life of an industry as large as the newspaper business shows a complete lack of knowledge about economic and business cycles.
Thank you so much for your kind words.
How about dropping the Op/Eds and slanted stories that no one believes?
At least comics are fun. Except for the predictable snoozers by Trudeau and Breathed.
See you in the funny papers.
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