Our hometown newspaper has gone through all sorts of changes in the past three or four years. First it cut out weekend papers. Then it changed the page size to tabloid. The latest move which was implemented last month is to publish only three times a week and expect the readers to rely on its internet site for the rest of the week’s news. This is a city of some 80,000 with only one newspaper and no local tv news station.
I don’t mind the internet issues but reading the comments to stories drives me crazy as I see the horrendous grammar and spelling (not to mention logic and manners) of those readers.
We still get the local on weekends for the adds and comics. Tradition I guess. Lately I've been thinking we don't even need that.
On the rare occasions I do open the news section, I find two to three day old stories and an editorial page that might as well be direct from SeeBS or a parrot of the NYT.
Not worth the frustration or blood pressure meds to read.