Re: Newspaper quit printing

Posted by Hal/Eastern WA on August 07, 2012 at 14:39:00 from (97.114.119.195):

In Reply to: Newspaper quit printing posted by Spook on August 06, 2012 at 17:38:06:

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.

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