Finally....a legitimate use for The Dallas Morning News.
If I had a bird, I wouldn't insult it by lining its cage with the Dallas Morning News.
Many years ago Dallas had two daily newspapers, the Morning News and the (afternoon) Dallas Times Herald. The Times Herald eventually closed its doors and the very next day (as I recall) classified advertising rates in the Morning News nearly doubled. Bastards!
With the increasing popularity of internet news, most print newspapers have seen nothing but financial losses in recent years. When the Dallas Morning News let go most of their writers to save a buck, the size of the paper was nearly cut in half....there wasn't much left worth reading. AND the price shot up. AND they lost 20% of their subscribers the next year. Including ME!
I suspect they're staying afloat these days by being the local print and delivery source for a few national papers such as The New York Times and (I believe) The Wall Street Journal. Trouble is, they can't reliably deliver them. Literally half the time K has to call the paper and tell them they missed our delivery. It's an ongoing battle.
I quit! Today we switched our national newspaper subscription to a digital online version only. As I see it, though, I didn't fire the Dallas Morning News. They fired themselves. Good riddance.
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Print media is going the way of the buggy whip.
ReplyDeleteRumor has it, Joe, that on "some" *wink* internet sites buggy whips are still very popular. Maybe you sold your buggy whip stock too soon. ;)
DeleteWe just ended our subscription to the Dayton Daily News. Unfortunately the paper is just fine - we just never read the thing. I didn't see paying for something we weren't using. I felt kind of bad about it...
ReplyDeleteI'm a news hound, and will happily pay for the newspaper. But I'm not going to pay for it IF THEY WON'T DELIVER IT TO ME!
DeleteI'm young enough to never have had a newspaper subscription because by the time I was an adult I could get all the news online anyway. They really need to hire more competent paper boys though.
ReplyDeleteMine, boy or girl, man or woman, is a prince/princess. He/she double-bagged my Sunday New York Times today so it stayed dry in our downpour.
ReplyDeleteI cancelled out newspaper years ago and now receive all my news online. Tell me, did Romney win the election?
ReplyDeleteWe still get the print edition of our local paper seven days a week. With a paid subscription, we get a free digital edition, too. We look at both. There is the option of a digital-only version, but we're not quite ready to give up our "real" newspaper.
ReplyDeleteThe paper boy (a guy in a big pickup truck) is quite reliable...I can't remember the last time we had to call because of a missed delivery.
This post was inspired by yet another Sunday when I DID NOT win the Newspaper lottery....at least 2 times a month my NYT Sunday edition fails to show up. Each time I log into my NYT account and click the little "missed paper" button and each time they credit my account.
ReplyDeleteIn the past 2 years I have talked to Customer Service at the NYT - just to let them know really what's going on. I have also talked to the Dallas Morning News Delivery several times to let them know I would really like to actually get the paper I order....for several weeks the paper arrives and I think this time I have solved the issue....but no ..... not really ....
What lowandslow omitted was that before the Dallas Times Herald went bankrupt, it was bought by the Los Angeles Times, and was somewhat left of Pravda. At that time the Dallas Morning News was right of the Wall Street Journal, and celebrated the demise of the Times Herald by hiring several of their writers. That and the lack of competition have resulted in the Morning News drifting left at a slow and steady pace. Now one may as well read the NYT or the Wash Post because that's what they use for a wire service. After almost 30 years I have had all I can stand of their far left bias, so the future looks like the WSJ.
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