Newspapers must be hurting ?

[Doug]

I got an offer in the mail from the Hartford Courant.

Home delivery for $1.30 a week, for up to a year.

I took it.

Newspaper used to cost 15 cents a day, 35 cents on Sunday, for $1.25/week, when I was a paperboy in the late 70's.

They must be hurting bad to offer this rate. I don't see what it accomplishes for them, I'll cancel it when it goes back up.

 

[maxdemo]

Dude my paper just went up ... The Houston Chronicle...was $0.50 now its a $1.00 per weekday... Sunday is $2.50..crazy

 

[Doug]

they will lose subscribers, then !

I only accepted, at this price....don't really need the paper, but this is cheap enough.

When I was a carrier, nearly 100% of homes got it, now I'd say 5-10 %, maybe less ?

I don't see many papers surviving in 10 years, maybe:

usa today
wall street journal

and special interest papers

 

[Doug]

Dude my paper just went up ... The Houston Chronicle...was $0.50 now its a $1.00 per weekday... Sunday is $2.50..crazy

you can't double the price overnight !

 

[red007]

seattle might soon be first big city w/out a daily paper.

 

[patrick7033]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDBhg60UNI

kinda strange but kinda realistic.

 

[C.P.]

Chicago Sun Times used to be .35..and 115+ pages..

now...it's .50 and 60 pages tops..take out the car ads and the obits and you got a whoppin' 35-40 pages...

ya can read the prick in 15 min...hno:

 

[onemwtheone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDBhg60UNI

kinda strange but kinda realistic.

The print media is deader than the trees they're printed on. As for the above, please. Which one would you trust - the free flow on information or a monopolistic control of all news? The folks that put that together are walking dinosaurs.

 

[Drewgasm]

The Detroit News and Free Press are going to only 3 day home delivery...they still print the paper on Mon, Tues, and Wed....but its only at newsstands...I think the internet is becoming more and more.....by the time you get a paper in your hand, its old news....the younger generation just reads it online I think....

Gasm~

 

[bucsfan67]

saw today where some paper in Philly filed for bankruptcy.....the ease of finding news on the Internet and the CNN style stations on everyone's cable has made papers almost obsolete, except for the funnies and the crossword..

 

[ensign_lee]

Dude my paper just went up ... The Houston Chronicle...was $0.50 now its a $1.00 per weekday... Sunday is $2.50..crazy

That's because the Chronicle has a monopoly. It's also the same reason we have shitty-ass sports coverage, especially for the Texans.

You either read that or you read nothing as far as newspapers go.

 

[goodcall]

their demographic is dying off

 

[BEANTOWNJIM]

boston herald 75 cents boston globe 75 daily i look around town i always find a broken box on the street and get free newspapers otherwise forget it i am not paying 75 cents a day for a newspaper.the sunday papers are both 2.75 screw it i just watch the news on t.v.

 

[treece]

I got an offer in the mail from the Hartford Courant.

Home delivery for $1.30 a week, for up to a year.

I took it.

Newspaper used to cost 15 cents a day, 35 cents on Sunday, for $1.25/week, when I was a paperboy in the late 70's.

They must be hurting bad to offer this rate. I don't see what it accomplishes for them, I'll cancel it when it goes back up.

Thats a good deal even if you just burn the paper in the fireplace. But that Houston Chronicle newspaper. I would just cancel the subscription asap.

 

[TheCooler]

great deals going on, so far this year i got:

Wall St. Journal- $9.80 a month (6 days a wk.)
Fortune- $20.00 for two years (48 issues)
Forbes- Free for one year (rewards gold)
Time- $20.00 for one year
SI- $10.00 for one year

 

[TheCooler]

oh if anyone is interested in Free Forbes for a year here's the link:

http://slickdeals.net/?sdtid=1092484&u2=http://buzz.teenfreeway.com/z/9/CD944

 

[HiPockets]

The surviving papers are under huge stress to stay in business with pressures of pensions, unions, advertising declines , paper costs, distribution costs, and digital competition. But before you celebrate the smoke-out of this free speech candle around which our informed public free speech democracy has been built, you damn well better understand the consequences. True, technology happens and transplants, and reforms, regrows new channels, and condenses new time gaps. However (an old school word) the power of newspapers and political importance was always in local knowledge, local advertising, and local opinion. From sports to news, newspaper writers are among the sharpest, most open-community involved, energetic folks I know. Maybe they can continue in digital media. My 1984 fear is that digitized channels of freethought are more vulnerable and controllable (you don't have to search far to understand the editorial media control exercised in the build up to our impoverishing murderous failed venture in Iraq). The NY Post chimp cartoon is a good example. In print, it was stable picture over a print community bulletin board on which we could all form opinions and comment; but suppose it was a subliminal TV digital mind-controlling split second lock on our thoughts- maybe not so good.

 

[onemwtheone]

The NY Times will not be missed. Free speech candle - heh.

 

[kidslick]

The Detroit News and Free Press are going to only 3 day home delivery...they still print the paper on Mon, Tues, and Wed....but its only at newsstands...I think the internet is becoming more and more.....by the time you get a paper in your hand, its old news....the younger generation just reads it online I think....

Gasm~

Where I live people still love to read the newspaper.

People also like the free coupons in sundays paper.

When your on a train to nyc you need your newspaper.


I have worked as a printer for over 20 years, Its a dying industry.

 

[oldmanTED]

Newspapers getting thinner and thinner in my area. Definitely has been a cut back on literature provided.