As I’ve said before, we’re not going to renew our subscription to our local print newspaper when it expires April 1. Yesterday they sent an email asking us to resubscribe and thanking us for supporting their “quality journalism.” Well, that’s the point, isn’t it? They never have indepth reporting, they don’t tell us about upcoming community events, and during the last election they didn’t, among other things, tell us who was running for County Council and what the candidates’ positions were on various issues.
Then when we discovered an annual subscription wasn’t for a year, that they would reduce the time as they saw fit to pay for their special issues, it was the last straw.
So I decided to savor the remaining issues as we said goodbye after over 45 years. I was thinking that when I looked at the paper last night. I glanced at one article, then I turned to the Sudoku and laughed.
Yes, no puzzle, just the answers here and on another page. It’s not the first time they’ve done this, but the timing now is priceless. It does make it easier to say goodbye.
February 27, 2020
sounds like it was the “time” and their issues with proofreading needs to be addressed or something similar!
yes it’s the small things that break the camels back and make us really take note of what “is and what isn’t”
but then there’s the notion that a long tradition is worth savvying or can we jump over the hurdle, and say “time gentlemen”
Yes, unfortunately it’s time. 🙁
It is just too bad…I like a hometown paper and ours is not like that. But delivery boys/girls are not the same. I quit ours because we were gone too much, but then never started it again. Our daughter and her friend did this street for a couple years, and they did the paper just exactly as the customers wanted. Such as one customer wanted Sarah to put it under a brick on her porch…Sarah did. Another wanted it in her mailbox. And there were more…an Alexis had some special requests. And their customers loved them…they made good money.
After they quit, with new kids, it might end up on our roof, out in the yard, you just never knew. So, now I pic one up at the store when I happen to be in there.
That brings back fond memories.— Kaitlin delivered these papers years ago. 🙂
does it belong to the Keystone Cops perhaps?
good riddance to bad rubbish.
actually it makes your decision easier. just like you said!
It’s still sad after all these years.
Sad to see hometown papers go the way of the buggy whip but I don’t blame you. I’ll probably give up mine as soon as I’m finish e-Baying because I still need it for packing material.
Sounds like a great reason for still taking it. 😀
That is too funny about the Sudoku. We have had a few times where our paper has run the same puzzles as previously run. Mom loves to do all the puzzles on the comic pages, word ones, number ones, etc. But with her arm she hasn’t been able to do them for several weeks now.
We also have lots of complaints about the quality (lacking quality) of our daily paper. If it gets any smaller, it will just disappear. All of our area sports games, like KU and MU get their game results published two days after the game because the games don’t end early enough to make the morning print deadline – they must be printing the paper at the dinner hour the night before. And now they are cutting our Saturday delivery BUT will give us all of Saturday’s puzzles in the Sunday edition:) They have also eliminated a lot of the special sections. It is really sad. Mom and Dad want to cancel their subscription but they also get the Wall Street Journal. The same delivery person brings both papers, and they worry they won’t get their WSJ on a regular basis. They tell their readers that they can read everything online, but Mom and Dad really like a real paper to hold and read.
Woos, Lightning and Timber
We still get the Wall Street Journal in print, but the delivery person was so erratic they asked us to switched to getting it by mail. It often gets here that afternoon, but sometimes we have to wait for the next day. Like your mom and dad, Andy likes to hold it to read.
PS They cut our paper to only three days a week — Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.
And people wonder why the newspaper business is fading into antiquity.
It will be interesting to see if this paper can continue.
Editing isn’t what it used to be. It seems to me like lack of attention to detail is becoming a wide spread problem.
You may be right!
our newspaper did the same thing, it went from big to a few pages and what was in it was not much… it is sad because online news has ruined the printed news, but that is the way it is. I remember daddy always waiting for the evening news, it came at 3, in Savanah we had a choice of morning or evening. I always got the morning because I got up before the kids and their dad to have coffee and read the news… life changes. hope you don’t miss it to much.
It’s down to only three days a week already, so they are weaning us off it. 😀