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Offline pjcomix

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VIDEO: I Went Into SHOCK When I Saw My Local Newspaper
« on: July 18, 2022, 10:47:53 pm »
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I really haven't paid much attention to print edition newspapers for years but today when I went into a Walgreens I decided to take a quick look at the lone newspaper I saw on the rack and was SHOCKED by what I saw. Is this also the situation with your local newspaper? Are they as THIN and EXPENSIVE as the Sun-Sentinel? Let me know in your comments.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3vB96fpyGI
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Re: VIDEO: I Went Into SHOCK When I Saw My Local Newspaper
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2022, 03:21:28 pm »
Quote from: pjcomix on July 18, 2022, 10:47:53 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3vB96fpyGI
I quit taking our local newspaper years ago.  It was purchased by the same company that owns USA Today.  They may have 2 local stories per edition and the rest are national stories picked up from USA Today.  The only reason to even take the paper is for the obits.
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Re: VIDEO: I Went Into SHOCK When I Saw My Local Newspaper
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2022, 03:39:33 pm »
No secret print media is dying. 

Sad, because, archival experts have stated that the ability to perpetuate records electronically for long periods of time will be near zero.

A 1000 years from now, the future will know more about 1920 than 2020.
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Re: VIDEO: I Went Into SHOCK When I Saw My Local Newspaper
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2022, 04:20:26 pm »
Quote from: mrpotatohead on July 19, 2022, 03:21:28 pm
I quit taking our local newspaper years ago.  It was purchased by the same company that owns USA Today.  They may have 2 local stories per edition and the rest are national stories picked up from USA Today.  The only reason to even take the paper is for the obits.

Much the same story here.  Our "local" newspaper (cough, cough) is owned by a large corporation that owns hundreds of "local" papers, a subscription is expensive, and what you read in it is ads and yesterday's news. Local content only rarely.  I canceled my subscription years ago as well.
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Re: VIDEO: I Went Into SHOCK When I Saw My Local Newspaper
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2022, 04:24:55 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on July 19, 2022, 04:20:26 pm
Much the same story here.  Our "local" newspaper (cough, cough) is owned by a large corporation that owns hundreds of "local" papers, a subscription is expensive, and what you read in it is ads and yesterday's news. Local content only rarely.  I canceled my subscription years ago as well.
You got "yesterday's news" right. even local events are not announced in advance, only as a retrospective. After being misquoted twice and having a letter to the editor edited to say what I did not, I refuse to even buy a copy off the rack, much less subscribe.
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Re: VIDEO: I Went Into SHOCK When I Saw My Local Newspaper
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2022, 04:39:17 pm »
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You got "yesterday's news" right. even local events are not announced in advance, only as a retrospective. After being misquoted twice and having a letter to the editor edited to say what I did not, I refuse to even buy a copy off the rack, much less subscribe.

I went to war with the editor of our local rag over that kind of s&^t back in the early 90s.  Got her fired in fact, but it was all to no avail in the end.
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Re: VIDEO: I Went Into SHOCK When I Saw My Local Newspaper
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2022, 04:49:00 pm »
Fo Fitty for a Monday paper?  Are you shitting me??
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Re: VIDEO: I Went Into SHOCK When I Saw My Local Newspaper
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2022, 05:07:47 pm »
our main paper is much as y'all describe... In fact, any of the main papers... Daily Interlake, Missoulian (Missoula),  or Spokesman Review (Spokane) are all liberal rags owned by other liberal rags.

But we have a couple decent local papers that still have some journalistic pluck... Those being the Flathead Beacon and the Hungry Horse News. I hit the Beacon's site nearly every day.
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