Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
I'd miss ours. I love the freebee's we get but then again I just love the printed media and hate online newspapers. Must come from not having them in my formative years because they wouldn't deliver to a deployed ship, assholes.
But seriously the problem for these newspapers is the economy. In small town anywhere free newspapers are paid for by sponsors and when the economy goes bad the sponsors dry up which means the paper is no longer viable and shuts down.
It's simple economics and has nothing to do with readership.
That's true and it's why some services - like the post office and a few others - need to be run by the government. Otherwise, corporations will simply abandon rural parts of this country because they can't make enough profit there.
And that's coming from a tried and true city slicker, not a rural resident.