Newspaper quit printing

Our local paper has shut it's local printing plant, folks just aren't reading newspapers anymore. Are your local papers shutting down?

I read a newspaper!No way am I going to 'online' for my newspaper!!

Call Warren Buffet he is buying saying people want the news around there town

Warren bought the Omaha World Herald not too long ago. I had gotten used to reading it online, but now they limit how many times a month you can click on any story! You can buy more access, but it is becoming even more abundant since the buy out, so not that interested in what they have to say!

Not much of a local paper here. I can't afford to spend the MEGA bucks to have the Lincoln Journal-Star, or Omaha World-Herald delivered (or, actually - MAILED...), so resorted to the online version....At least until this week.....can't afford the $10 a month they want to view it online, so guess I don't need to know what's going on!

It's too much of an ingrained habit to break! I take the local Tacoma News Tribune,The Capitol Press farm paper, and an Auction paper from Montana. The old news works real well around the base of my fruit trees, to hold moisture, and anywhere that mulch is needed.

Day may be comeing that will be the only way to get the news. Just saying. I don't read the paper much, they never get the facts right rounds here anyway.

One of our local radio stations has a website that is excellent for giving the local news, and for national or world news, I go to either MSN or Fox.

Only newspapers I pick up are the shoppers guides.

Spook, what part of the country are you in?

Greg,
It seems that I read somewhere that Warren Buffet paid 1 point something billion dollars for the OWH and agreed to take over the one billion dollar debt that the World Hearld had accumulated.
Last fall one of Buffet's companies was suffering tremendous losses, but he talked the president into giving that company a big government grant....it ended the year making a profit for Berkshire Hathaway.
I guess that when your rich you just can't lose.

I'm afraid our local paper here in s.w.Pa is about to quit. It has been getting smaller & smaller over the last few years. they don't seem to have any reporters. If you want local news, you have to get an out-of-the-county paper!

Ours is printed 30 miles away, but it still has local news. Local radio also does a good job. We're a small county, only 44,000 people so readership is limited. All newspapers are in trouble due to the internet, TV, cable, etc. Even the big city dailies are losing money and stopping home delivery. Probably the future is something by subscription over the internet.

I have subscribed to our small town paper for years. Costs me about $9.00 per month delivered. It isn't nearly as thick as it used to be and they stopped printing a Monday paper about six or eight months ago. But it keeps me abreast of who's doin' who, and who got caught at it. I have started keeping up with the business page, and on
Wednesdays they have grocery ads. They also cover two or three adjoining counties. Since I retired I kinda look forward to the paper with my morning pot of coffee.

I read the "Sioux City Journal" daily. Besides I am addicted to the crossword. My Dr. told me to exercise my brain to help ward off Alzhiemers. "Do the crossword in the paper" she said. I was about 20 years ahead of her on that one.

Live just outside Edmonton AB, 'bout a million people in the metro area, yet one of the two major papers recently cut the sunday edition, and has shrunk the other editions.

Our lane is a quarter mile long. Our newspaper has gotten so thin, I stick it in my back pocket and forget it's there. Then it hooks under the backrest on the tractor seat and I think what the dickens is that?

Most of them are still there but have turned their focus online.
What bothers me about it most is according to some on this board the Ford N Series Tractors(with the OD tranny of course)were only good for gathering eggs and fetching the mail/newspaper.
Most eggs come from the store now.
If the newspapers fold and the mail is in trouble what will be the use for them then?

I quit reading the paper 8-10 years ago. The local rag is just gossip and the sports kids are playing. The Dubuque paper changed its page size and print size. It is hard to read any more so I dropped it. They wanted to "save" money. Well they "saved" my use of it.

I listen to a couple of local radio stations and look on-line if I want to see the news.

I find as I get older I careless about what the rest of the people are doing. I have enough to do with out worrying about what others are doing.

Ours got to be nearly all ads. Sunday paper weighed about 10 pounds.

Did your local paper quit printing a hard copy of their paper or did they quit publishing a paper entirely? On-line subscriptions are less expensive and are becoming some-what popular. Most younger folks under 30-40 no longer bother reading a newspaper if they can't pull it up on an I-pod. They have so many other sources for the news. Bigger advertizers are shifting to distributiong their ads in the free "weekly shoppers" rather than in daily newspapers.

Our regional paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, is $2.40 per week for 7 issues delivered ($1.00 for Sunday & $0.23 each for six daily issues). An online subscription is $14.95 per year for 365 issues/ year ($0.04 per issue).

Our local paper, the Hutchinson Leader, is published twice a week in a town of 12,000 people. A subscription is $50/year ($0.50 per issue) hard copy delivered. The on-line version is the same price ($0.50 per issue). The local paper can't figure out why few people are buying an on-line subcription.

Gannett published the local paper. They had 4 medium sized cities in about a 150 mile radius,so the built a giant printing plant and now print all four papers out of it. Now we get one page of local news and the rest is just generic crap.

We take a local paper. but only for the
Obituaries!

Our local Gannett-owned newspaper just raised their subscription rates. I've been a subscriber since 1983, but I had to stop the daily paper because it just became too expensive. Now they want $15 a month for Sunday only, so I'll probably drop that as well. The folks at the paper tell us that the subscription pays for unlimited internet access as well; without the subscription, you can only access a maximum of 5 articles a day for free.

Since I usually only access the obituaries and the local news, I may quit my subscription altogether. The Sunday paper USED to have enough coupons, that I actually used, to pay for itself. At the higher price, that proposition is borderline at best now.

I quit reading the news, and also quit watching the news on tv,.... it just became too depressing.

Not much "news" is impartial these days,... but more like some news-outlet's "opinion". (and you know what they say about opinions)

I do kind'a miss the cartoons though!

We used to have a morning paper, the Spokesman-Review, and an afternoon paper, the Spokane Daily Chronicle. One family owned both papers, but they each had their own staff and sometimes the editorials actually contradicted each other.

But about 30 years ago, the owners decided that the afternoon paper was not making them enough money, and they quit publishing it. That left Spokane with only one newspaper, and in my opinion, the remaining one was the poorer one. But I grew up reading the paper, so I continued to subscribe.

Unfortunately over the years, the Spokesman-Review has really gone downhill. They cut back on their staff in almost all positions, and have really cut back in the content I buy the local newspaper for: local news. A couple of years ago, they actually reduced the SIZE of the newspaper page I would estimate about 30%, and what is still there has MUCH LESS CONTENT than the same paper had even 10 years ago.

And the price of a subscription has gone up almost every year. I know there has been inflation, but less content for more money is not a good deal. Yet they are the ONLY GAME IN TOWN, as far as a daily newspaper goes.

I have read that young people are not interested in reading newspapers--they either are not interested at all, or what little news they get comes from the internet or TV.

I was always interested in what was going on in the world and especially in my home area. While I watched TV news most of the time, most of my understanding of what was going on came from what I read and interpreted from the daily newspaper.

It worries me that SO MANY of the people in this country now have no interest or understanding of what is happening around them. And I think that the decline of printed journalism is both a result and a cause of the problem. At least some of these people are voters. How do they choose who to vote for when all the information they have about the candidates is half minute sound bites? Maybe that is why so many times the better looking candidate wins the election.

I fully expect our remaining newspaper to quit publishing within the next 10 or 20 years. And I suppose I will still have a subscription going on that last day. SAD...but they are doing it to themselves.

I see a few reasons for their demise. First, nobody puts ads in the classified section anymore, if you want to sell something, you're normally gonna put it on Craigslist or maybe ebay.

Secondly, you can sometimes get the same news on the paper's website or just go somewhere else online.

Thirdly, but not leastly, just about every paper is so dang abundant, and the editors just don't understand that we don't have to read their slanted B.S. as our sole source of information.

I'm kind of a newspaper junkie and it's hard to quit, but hardly a day goes by where I don't get p.o.'d at the local paper for their obvious (to me) biases.