Our newspaper is going out of business

[moosmom]

I feel bad for all the elderly residents who don't have a computer and won't be able to get the news once the newspapers go strictly electronically.

I refuse to buy the Courant because there's not much left to read (it's thinner than I've seen it in a long time). I check the obits (to make sure I'm not in them) and the state news. That's it.

[Lillycat]

Oh, Sara, Everything you have mentioned is so true......it is sad also.....

[Catlady711]

That's sad for the people that are losing their jobs over it.

However I mostly get what little news I read from the tv or internet myself. The only thing an actual newspaper is good for is the comics and as cage liners. So I often find myself at work reading the cage liners. Only problem is if all newspapers go under what will we use for cage liners?

[Karen]

The newspapers have been in trouble for a long time. Paper costs continue to rise, as well as distribution costs - trucks need fuel, after all - and newspapers are advertiser-driven. If advertisers decide to spend their dollars elsewhere - or run out of dollars to spend, the subscriptions don't cover even half the cost of printing and distributing the newspaper, never mind paying reporters and editors and staff.

Maybe some papers will still exist in a once-a-week form - I buy the Sunday paper some weeks, but do not have - and never have had - the daily paper delivered.

There is a weekly paper that comes to my house for free, and it often goes right into the recycling - it just isn't where I get my "news" most of the time.

Caveat: I used to work for the local newspaper, in the advertising production department.