I canceled my subscription to my city’s daily a couple of years ago when they started cutting the local news, and non-local news was mostly re-hashed stuff I’d read on the web news sites the day before (some of which appeared on blogs or microblogs [twitter] before that):
As their print circulation falls, big metro dailies are charging more at the newsstand. They are hiking prices to offset the growing costs of production–including ink and paper–and distribution, where they are feeling the squeeze from high gas prices. This paradoxical strategy may shore up revenues for some companies, but it’s a risky proposition…
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When newspapers raise prices, I will:
MediaPost Publications - With Fewer Readers, Big Newspapers Charge More - 07/28/2008
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1 Gloria Ferris // Aug 16, 2008 at 9:13 pm
I have heard at two newsstands this week when i have seen a headline that catches my eye and plopped down my 50 cents for the PD that on the 18th the price will increase to 75 cents. Since both times that I bought the paper last week I did nothing more than skim it and was greatly disappointed in the two articles that caused me to buy it, I will discontinue even buying the paper on a random day basis. I will continue to glean my news from blogs, friends, and national papers.
The Plain Dealer will now lose my average of $2.00 a week.
Their take will be zero. Why because I don’t think it is worth my time to read it. And there you have it, I am not willing to pay 25 cents more for my continued disappointment in its quality.
Case in point–Thousands of people attended the RTA public hearings. People were turned away from the downtown library and another day was added. People from all walks of life told their stories and how service cuts would change their lives. Believe me it wasn’t that the quality would be better. At least, they printed Joe Calabrese’s thank you, but, why isn’t the Plain Dealer acting like a leader and promoting public transit as an economic driver and as an alternative to one person-one car.
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