My local paper and a pet peeve of mine...

[Wounded Bear]

I'm OK with my local rag, The Seattle Times. Hell I even understood when they raised rates this summer. I call it the Covid hike because I could see their ad revenue was collapsing with so much business being shut down for the Trump plague.

One thing that has always bugged me, though, is what happens today. Every Turkey Day, they charge Sunday rates, and the only real difference is the extra pound or so of ad flyers they include, all of which goes straight to the recycling bin, unread. I figure all those stores and such paid to include those ad inserts, so charging me the Sunday rate (twice the daily rate BTW) seems a bit like double dipping to me.



Lame rant over.

[True Dough]

1. Well, consider yourself lucky to have a city paper

They're a dying breed. Even if newsprint isn't a great medium, local journalism can and should be. We need reporters to keep "the system" accountable, people digging through documents, asking tough questions, revealing scandals.

Sadly, that sort of thing is happening less and less at the local level.

[Shrike47]

2. I feel your pain, and annoyance. Our paper was bought out by a Texas conglomerate. Stale news.

No local grasp except for the rare article. Lousy editorializing (cut down the trees to save the forest!) Huge sales flyers today, for things we would never buy, stores we would never shop at. And they imposed a big raise on the monthly cost, of course.

Grrr.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Seattle Times is still locally owned...

Editorially, they are actually somewhat centrist, with opinions from both sides.

But content still focuses mostly local.

[dem4decades]

3. My local paper is a right wing rag, endorsed Trump. The poll today? "do you agree with President

Trump's pardon of Michael Cohen?"

Michael Cohen? What fucking idiots. 70 % of the readers agreed with it. LOL

[Cirque du So-What]

4. My local fishwrap was $5 today

Seems exorbitant.

[procon]

6. My relatives wait in suspense to get their greedy

mitts on all those sales adds. At least in years last they picked out all their goodies, loaded up a caravan of cars and spent most of the day shopping.

They love it. Makes them happy. This year, not so much, so they are pretty bummed out.

[pansypoo53219]

7. our milw paper is always sunday sized for thanksgiving.