Dec 16 2008
It’s not just the automakers…
…in Detroit that make stupid, bonehead decisions. Now the city’s two newspapers have decided to cut back on home delivery – by not delivering on MOST days.
The Detroit Free Press will deliver on Thursday, Friday & Sunday while the Detroit News will deliver Thursday & Friday.
They’ll still publish a print edition on the other days, just not deliver it.
They’re hoping to devote the ‘saved resources’ to the on-line editions. No word, though, on how they’ll serve lower income, and other non-connected, citizens. But it isn’t just the non-connected.
Should my daily paper (the San Jose Mercury News) do something as ridiculous they can pretty much count on not getting another penny out of me – either for a random home delivery, a newsstand copy or an on-line one. The San Francisco Chronicle or the Palo Alto Daily News would be the beneficieries of the Merc’s poor judgement.
What WERE they thinking?!?