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I've subscribed to the local paper since I've been here.
I enjoy reading it while having my morning coffee,& doing the crossword-
puzzle.
They switched to a different crossword puzzle that I don't like,cut
the comics from a full page to 1/2 a page.
In the last five years,it's gone from about $24/month to $44/month.
I got a letter saying that it's going to over $69 a month,so I called to see if
they'ed lower it. An aprox.40% rate hike is crazy!
I called & told them that unless I could get a lower rate,I'd cancel it.
After being put on hold for some time,I was told that they'd give me a "Special"
rate of $64.I told them that unless I could keep the the old rate that I want them
to cancel my subscription when the month's up.
I'll have to wait & see if they send another letter giving me my old rate.
 
It's so sad and frustrating that so many newspapers are failing, and/or being bought out by people wanting to gut them and turn them into sources of revenue, no real news at all. Many folks would rather see quick headlines on their screens, than detailed articles on sheets of paper. Journalists are losing their jobs; local news is disappearing except on local TV stations, advertising space and time keep increasing, and younger folks are ignoring print for "social media screen time". Few want to learn details, except what they see on social media and their "news feed".

Jefferson believed in a democracy of educated people. So much of what we "learn" today isn't useful, nor educating. Learning has to be something that's "fun" - as we accumulate more toys and watch our democracy spiral down to warring camps fed by the 'net.

OK - back to my cave.
 
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Yea, my local too has gone that way. I don't bother anymore with the daily edition, it has very little actual new and concentrates mostly on local "human interest" type things to fill the few pages that are left. The Sunday edition went from $1.50 to $4.49. Only reason to get it, the comics they still have and the local tv listings since getting a tv guide isn't any cheaper and I prefer having it where the TV is rather than going in another room to look and see what might be playing on all channels that day.

My dad would be terribly upset with the quality of today's news reporting, local and national, were he still with us.
 
When they cut the comics way back they then have them online.
I don't want to go online to read them,and wade through a bunch
that I don't like.
 
I've decided I live in the most boring place in the world. Our daily newspaper includes on Fridays, a local newspaper, the Concord Transcript. I rarely see any news from Concord in it, a city of about 130,000 people, the largest in the county. The daily paper is supposed to cover Alameda and Contra Costa counties, the East Bay, but really covers San Jose and Santa Clara County, where the parent newspaper is located. At least they have a page and a half of comics, and a color section of comics on Sunday.

This morning's editorial was about how Meta and similar tech companies run local stories on-line and don't compensate the newspapers for the stories they wrote.
 
With the increase in costs of production it surprises me any of the print papers survive.

And when was the last time a telephone directory or road atlas was in print?
 
Our local paper is a shell of its former self. Used to be nice and thick will all manner of national, international and local stories. These days it not much more than a flyer. Not sure how much longer it can survive. It certainly isn't a cost effective way to consume what little news they deem fit to print.
 
IMO newspaper demise is purely a supply side issue. And consumers do not realize their loss… I’m not sure the number, but more than zero “headlines” are created by folks that are not journalists!!

I continue to subscribe, almost regardless of cost, simply because the principal.
 
That's what I assume, that one of these days I'll walk into the store on a Sunday and they'll say, "Sorry, no longer available". And I started reading it back in the 60s when I was still a kid.
 
Interesting how Postman (in pre-internet days) compared Huxley to Orwell, regarding the "reading of books".
 
Remembering back in ancient times, when I was a kid, we always got the Sunday paper, it must have weighed 5 pounds! Everybody had their section to look at, it was the funnies for me. :thumbsup2: Pop would roll them up, after it became old news, and burn them in the fireplace in cold weather. I think he sprayed them with something before rolling up. So we got two benefits from the papers! :encouragement:
 
Paul - Me too! We'd take the old newspaper, soak in water with some dish detergent added, then roll them up and let dry. Fireplace fodder!
 
John Turney said:
I've decided I live in the most boring place in the world. Our daily newspaper includes on Fridays, a local newspaper, the Concord Transcript. I rarely see any news from Concord in it, a city of about 130,000 people, the largest in the county. The daily paper is supposed to cover Alameda and Contra Costa counties, the East Bay, but really covers San Jose and Santa Clara County, where the parent newspaper is located. At least they have a page and a half of comics, and a color section of comics on Sunday.

This morning's editorial was about how Meta and similar tech companies run local stories on-line and don't compensate the newspapers for the stories they wrote.
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Same thing on this side of the bay.
When I lived near Half Moon Bay I subscribed to Coastside Chronicle until it became nothing more than advertising.
Since we moved to Pacifica 30 years ago we started getting the Pacifica Tribune.
That is now the same as the Half Moon Bay Paper.
 
John Turney said:
I've decided I live in the most boring place in the world. Our daily newspaper includes on Fridays, a local newspaper, the Concord Transcript. I rarely see any news from Concord in it, a city of about 130,000 people, the largest in the county. The daily paper is supposed to cover Alameda and Contra Costa counties, the East Bay, but really covers San Jose and Santa Clara County, where the parent newspaper is located. At least they have a page and a half of comics, and a color section of comics on Sunday.

This morning's editorial was about how Meta and similar tech companies run local stories on-line and don't compensate the newspapers for the stories they wrote.
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I remember when a girl,Kim Eddy,lived on Willcrest Drive in Concord.
We drove out to Clayton,and then go South,& then return to Concord.Wasn't
hardly anything out there back then.
 
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