Patriot News Raising Prices
January 9th, 2009
I have it on good account that the cost of a weekday copy of the Patriot News will soon cost seventy five cents.
The cost of a Sunday Patriot News will cost two bucks.
And the PennLive forums now feature advertisements.
In additional Patriot News-news, my sources also tell me that the layout is going to change considerably- scaling back the size and thickness of each issue.
Which leads me to wonder- why charge more when offering less and less each day?
why charge more when offering less and less each day?
Probably because the alternative is shutting down. Nobody is getting rich selling newspapers. When looking at the nationwide trends, we really should just be happy that we still do have a local daily.
btw, my comment yesterday about giving your t-shirt profits to charity was just bustin’ yr nuts. A Guinness is a “worthy cause.”
Like Billy Bragg says, Revolution is just a T-shirt away.
Get this…
The Erie Art Museum recently began offering a “green” membership process, all electronic, thus costly less for them I’d assume. Yet the “green” membership dues are about $10 higher across the board of membership levels. It just boggles the mind that we end up paying more for less, that people losing money and desperate to keep something going bridge the budget gap with insane initiatives and think we will just bite like stupid, hungry fish.
So here’s just another case of someone pissing on you and telling you it’s raining.
Saw on the Daily Show last night (yeah, that’s a news source. What?) that the New York Times is now offering adspace on the FRONT FREAKIN PAGE.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=amsJuEA115pI&refer=us
Rusty – you have to pay a premium to be “green” -
Hybrid cars, organic food, wind power, and now, green memberships….
“it aint e-z bein’ green”
I wonder what Kermt thinks of this