I know a lot of it is that there are fewer ads in this down economy. But it seems to me that they are cutting way down on content. Isn't that going to be to their long-term detriment. It's gotten to the point that, when I buy a newspaper, it's mostly for the crossword puzzle.
Businesses aren't advertising. It isn't like which comes first--the chicken or the egg. Without advertising the paper can't be printed. Unfortunately, it isn't news or crossword puzzles that will keep a paper alive. It is ads and the baby boomer generation. Without the two of them, there won't be newspapers.
Trying to get us to subscribe. It was smaller than the Wednesday paper when I used to deliver that fishwrap back in the 90's. Hardly any ads of any kind, including the classifieds.
Newspaper classifieds are way too expensive. Our local paper charges over $35 for a yard sale ad, so we stopped buying ads for our yard sales years ago. Instead, we put up lots of big signs and place a notice on Craigslist for free.
Another reason is that there just aren't many jobs left to advertise.
5. Detroit Papers are so thin we only get them delivered three times a week.
You can read them online the other days but that is a real pain and not worth the effort. I only subscribe now because it's too expensive to buy cage liners for all my bird cages.
If you want to buy a copy of the daily paper on the street, it will now cost you 75 cents instead of 50 cents. The Sunday paper went up 25 cents too.
It's now owned by McClatchy. The leveraged buyouts of the last couple decades haven't helped either. The business model now is focused on managing the burdensome debt. Feature articles tend to be national rather than local, same with national news and editorials.
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