[nascarnation]

I remember this Cleveland paper

[Buckeye McFrog]

We had two newspapers in Pittsburgh at one time too.

One of them was killed off by unions, who conducted a lengthy strike at a very inopportune time.

[hinckley buzzard]

In my youth there were three Cleveland dailies: The Plain Dealer was the morning paper; the Cleveland News was a noontime issue; The Cleveland Press came in the afternoon. First to fail was the News, swallowed by the Press. Then the Plain Dealer absorbed the Press.

Up to the 60’s the PD was a major newspaper, respected nationally. Then the rot set in; the paper veered left, which affected not only the editorial page but the editorial/ decisions on what news to print and how to slant it.

While Cleveland has prided itself as a blue collar town, mostly democrat leaning, events forced the people to face up to reality. They lost their taste for AFL-CIO headlines and Dennis Kucinich’s default.

But the people running the paper made the usual mistake, thinking that if a little left wing bias was good, a lot of it would be better. Certainly the internet played a major role, as the PD’s extensive classified section dwindled to ads from car dealers and a few random notices. But the fact is, the paper stopped providing even decent amount of local news; wire stories on the internet three days ago began to appear in the news section; and as the paper itself physically shrank to almost tabloid size, with few pages, the price went up.

It has become a waste of time to read and money to buy, and may as well just die a quiet death.