[skeeter]

Problem with the Merc is for the past 20 years they've been catering to a market that doesn't read english language publications.

[nickcarraway]

They Vietnamese and Spanish editions.

[ZGuy]

The argument used to be that newspapers are dying because they're too liberally biased. But here is a liberal newspaper that is failing even in an area where most of the people are liberal.

Newspapers are failing because they are OLD MEDIA and more people are getting their news from the internet. This would make sense since San Jose is in the middle of high tech land. Newspapers are over. Even a conservative newspaper couldn't make it in a conservative area.