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Subject: Re: How are small town papers doing?

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mark farmer

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Date Posted: 23:26:22 06/12/13 Wed
In reply to: Wes 's message, "Re: How are small town papers doing?" on 13:48:11 06/05/13 Wed

>I used to handle insert deliveries to newspapers large & small across TX & adjacent states. The manager of the Killeen paper's press room told me, "the smaller the paper, the greater the probility that the readers will study it."
I think he was right. Dog fights in Killeen count for more interest than gun fights in Houston.
>>Nevertheless, this does not address the question. How
>>are the weeklies doing? I would think they are doing
>>OK, but they may be vulnerable. Community and civic
>>blogs along with school on-line news may affect their
>>circulation. On-line advertising may affect their
>>income.
>
>The simple answer is that we are struggling but
>keeping our heads above water so far. Some places are
>better than others but circulation is dropping
>virtually everywhere, probably due to the Internet. My
>gut feeling is that rural areas have it a little
>better in that a small paper gives a big sense of
>community. The heck of it is that with blogs, etc.,
>you do not necessarily learn of something outside of
>your own little circle.
>
>I think small local newspapers be able to hold out for
>a while but the long run doesn't look very promising.
>
>-- Wes

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ralph058
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Date Posted: 18:02:32 06/15/13 Sat

>>I used to handle insert deliveries to newspapers
>large & small across TX & adjacent states. The manager
>of the Killeen paper's press room told me, "the
>smaller the paper, the greater the probility that the
>readers will study it."
>I think he was right. Dog fights in Killeen count for
>more interest than gun fights in Houston.
But a gun fight between two old codgers over a woman in Lampasas didn't even make national news when I was at Ft Hood in 1963.