A Dying Breed... Is Extinction Near?

We've made a not so difficult decision but at the same time one I don't feel exactly good about making... You see our 'city' newspaper like so many across the country has been suffering the same demise as their readership and ad sponsorship decline.  Since our daily subscription began 8 years ago, its cost rose as the paper shrunk. People go elsewhere for news. The internet is now the medium.

Here's a pic of Sunday's front page with the TV remote control placed on top of it to give you an idea of its present scale.   The main story obviously this past Sunday is the city's new theater.  You get my point, there's no meat ( as in real news).  Local papers are dying every day all over this country.

Originally every though it wasn't the Chicago Trib(une), a paper that would take me all Sunday am to peruse, I thought well at least I could learn what all was happening in the city even if I'd have to go else where for world news...

 BUT look again above at the weekend's front page. Photos take up 3/4 of the Sunday's front page.  It's really insulting assuming that we the readers would think that that's the most important thing going on in the world... Gee, we have a new theater. Isn't that why there's an entertainment section? Understandably, ads are important to survival but when they take up half the page, where's the news?  The paper turned out, no kidding, having more use as kindling paper rather than information and when it truly shrunk in half, the End of the Rainbow Valley went from our daily subscription to just the weekend.

Now, unfortunately, even though our subscription has been a 'little' support for a dying animal, we will be discontinuing our subscription as the news has really been cut from the 'news'paper.  I guess that's why we now just call it the 'paper. ' So sad...