The Sudoku puzzle made it into yesterday’s local paper, but one of the headlines was,
They will now be publishing twice a week — on Sundays and Wednesdays. Sigh. It’s sad to see the paper deteriorate. They say they have to join the trend to more online, less print, news, but I checked their site. It’s still not very good, not nearly as good as the free newspaper. I wish the Monitor well, but we’re not going to resubscribe. 🙁
March 5, 2020
That is too bad….it’s a good thing you had done made up your mind not to renew your subscription.
I wold be annoyed if we had paid, then found out they were dropping to two days a week. When we resubscribed two years ago we added $20 as a tip for the delivery person(s). A week or so later they switched to using the postal service, and didn’t return the tip, of course. 😀
agree with Rose. Sad though they think that they can just jump over to on-line and then I wonder if they will suggest subscription to “read more” …that’s what happened with our biggest national daily newspaper – at first it was free to read what you want, but now they have a paragraph and then it ghosted out – “to read more subscribe…”
Their online edition isn’t free, it’s only for subscribers. The other local paper is online, free, and had more information. It also attracts more advertisers.
Less issues but they probably won’t decrease the subscription price. It is sad to see things going though. We had a small hometown newspaper that published once a week. I thought it was more of a glorified school newspaper but it still had some local news. It still publishes but now it covers several different towns and very little of it is ours.
No, they won’t reduce the price because they’re in trouble. It’s sad.
it is sad the printed news is on the way out, the only way it will ever come back is if the internet crashes or the power lines fall down.
I agree. 🙁
So sad, and we bet it is the way most newspapers are going to go soon. Our paper has so little of value now that it is hardly worth the paper it is printed on.
Some big national newspapers are still growing strong. We get the print edition of the Wall Street Journal. Andy reads it every day, so we keep renewing even though the price keeps going up.
Meantime, the New York Times circulation figures are way up.
I’m not surprised. I get the digital version of the NYT, and the Washington Post, and others. My new one is the Boston Globe. It often covers some topics the others don’t.