Face it, people depend on television for national and international news, but media consolidation has all but eliminated local radio news, and the same thing is going on with the local TV news.

The next closest local paper, which is actually a pretty large daily, is still going. But they have a problem in Subscriptions – their latest tactic is dumping papers on your porch for a week, then sending you a bill….. when you never asked for them. I had cancelled that paper a couple of years ago, because their delivery person kept ruining my flowers. Even after I complained for the better part of a year, the idiot never threw them on the porch even once. And it’s right next to the road…. So it had nothing to do with the paper itself, or even with getting my news online.

I wonder, though, about the Lancaster paper. That area is not as much in the 21st century as cities like Philly, and the paper is a major connection for the community. There aren’t too many Amish with the internets. It seems to be doing well….considering….

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Most of the papers in deep trouble now once had cash reserves, but everything was looted in the buyout, including the pension funds.

The money is no longer available and bankruptcy is about the only thing left for most of the “geniuses”.

The paper is now half the size it was last year and has been hemorrhaging staff in an effort to cut costs. They even eliminated the local news section (dumb, I know) and received so many complaints they had to put it back (ok, smart move).

Last I read they had hired bankruptcy lawyers “just in case”. They better sell the Cubs baseball team quickly.

You are right…it is the debt that is drowning these papers but you don’t hear that from the corporate media.

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