@cjsummers I just don't see paying for the same news you can get for free. I remember delivering papers and it was $1.00 a week I think when I started it was $.80 cents a week.
@cjsummers and the paper you got yesterday, cost you $5.00. The fine print on your bill states that. Last year I paid for 52 weeks to find out it isn't 52 weeks. Called to complain, and was told too bad, read the fine print
@leslie110 True but the small amount there is is still good--better than the crap I see in my papers back home. I'm just sad to see newspaper disappearing all around and am wondering what's going to happen to that industry in the next ten years? You can't get the same kind of news from just the local bloggers, there's no way. And they are discovering they can't charge for online news because very few people pay. The newspaper business is definitely in a death spiral.
@cjsummers: Just curious: what is the annual cost to get the paper delivered every day now? I gave up our subscription a couple of years ago. The "extra edition" charge that goob alluded to was the final straw for me.
I am told that the delivery people are not direct employees of the paper. They are employees of an out-sourced company. With only one delivery a week, you can have access to the online edition.
As the rates go up it also seens like the PJStar worse snd worse too.
I know a number if people who read the Pantograph from Bloomington/Normal and they think that it does a good job of covering major a Peoris news quite well,
I got a call Tuesday from a telemarketer, For some reason i was nice to this one. Starting Monday we get the Journal star free for 8 weeks, I told the lady there is no way in hell i will be subscribing when the 8 weeks is up. She then laughed and said sir your not the first person who has said that to me today. BY the way she was calling from Washington State. You would think they would use local people for such a venture. Oh well the bird will be getting lots of new shiitpaper.
