How bad is the newspaper business

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• I live in a totally red state. In my city, which is the second biggest, our newspaper is extremely liberal. When 0sshiah became president the first time I stopped the paper. They wanted to know why. I said it's a liberal paper. It's sad how many things have changed. Got rid of cable, don't watch TV. Get news online and stream movies and documentaries.

• I am looking forward to the day I hear some kid say, "What's a newspaper?" At the rate newspapers credibility is sinking, it wont be long....thankfully.

• I guess propaganda doesn't sell like it used to in the age of electronics. While it's sad to see a local newspaper go under, I wish the NY Slimes would hurry up and fold.

  • I was just thinking how I would love to see this happening to the NY Slimes, the LA Slimes, and the Tampa Bay Slimes.

• When you don't report the truth and stories that are impacting those who might buy their papers. Keep "spiking" stories and telling lies and these papers can become like the horse and biggie. A thing of the past and something to see in some worthless movie.

• Do they get cute little bikes with ribbon s on handlebars to deliver them?

  • Dunno nss, how long would an unattended bike last in OC while the "reporter" was delivering to an apartment complex?

    [edit] should I buy stock in Schwinn?

    • You might wan to pick up a few shares.....

      • Schwinn is now a Chinese company.

        • Aren't they all....

  • I think they get the 3 wheel Schwinns with the basket in back. Can the worthless reporters even ride 2 wheel bikes?

    • Yea they won't fall over while they are drinking, driving and delivering... :)

• I didn't realize there were that many people that still needed to line the bottom of their bird cage.

  • Seriously, that was my first thought. Here's what I think the newspapers do: they don't let subscribers quit - they just keep counting them even when they stop subscribing. When my father lost his ability to read I stopped paying for his Grand Rapids Press and they just kept on delivering it. It started pissing me off because all it was accomplishing was to fill up the trash barrel. I finally turned the paper delivery box backwards so they couldn't put anything in there. Same with my own Sports Illustrated. I stopped renewing and the damn thing still arrives in the mail every week. I think counting me as a subscriber so they can claim a certain number when they talk to advertisers is worth more to them than my subscription fee.

    • I agree. In my dumber years I subscribed to the LA Times for a year. Once the year was up, they kept sending the paper. After a month or so I received a call from their subscription desk asking why I had not paid for the papers I was receiving. I told them I signed up for a year and that was all I wanted. Her response: "yes, but you've been receiving the paper since then, why haven't you paid?" I went round and round with her over the fact that I never asked for more than a year so whatever they sent after that was on them. Three months later the paper stopped arriving at my door.

      • I once received a post card from Playboy. It said to return part of it if I DIDN'T want a free one year subscription. I threw it away.

        They sent a FREE copy of the magazine faithfully every month for nearly twenty years, even through a number of address changes, (which I dutifully submitted).

• Time to change the name to the OS Register (Oh Shit Register).

• Journalists(?) performing manual labor? (Insert Nelson Muntz comment here). Best news I've heard this week.