2 On Feb 15, 12:18 am, Carrie wrote:

AHMEN, sistah!

and mistah!

ALWAYS with the cell phone solicitations and they are the only ones for us, too. One night we had our kids over, visiting, and literally someone soliciting for DA called each of our phones in a 15 minute time period.

We do not have a subscription and haven’t for about five yearish. When asked why, we said it was because they didn’t provide us five days a week coverage. Now we usually buy Thursday’s paper. It has the most local content. If we want national news we get it online. If we want state news we listen to the television. If we want local news we read the blogs, NCO and talk to our neighbor.

4 On Feb 15, 11:51 am, Pierce wrote:

Can’t you get on the do not call list? When in Astoria, I usually plop 50 cents into the slot to purchase the Daily A soon as it hits the street. That way I can beat the subcribers to the classifieds just in case there is a sweet deal. Thanks to the #%@*~!ing internet- ebay and craigslist those have pretty much become a thing of the past. Here in Sandpoint I buy the morning Spokane Spokesman Review the same way. One thing I have noticed with the Review is many of the downtown paper vendo machines are only stocked with 1 or 2 newspapers. ^*$%# internet again. Obviously readership is way down from just a few years ago when there would be at least half a dozen or so. I think most papers are feeling the pinch. The Sandpoint paper is called the Daily Bee and it’s so lame it makes the Daily A look like the New York Times by comparison. I get to work before the realitors next door and read their copy. It takes less than 5 minuets and I feel cheap and used aftewards but I do it anyway. So don’t be too hard on the Astorian, sure Steves gargantion ego gets in his way and limits him to writing about baseball,oprea, cigars and trips to Seattle or New York are bigger part of his comfort zone than a stroll through town. Sure Rich Fensack is the Ned Flanders of food critics. Sure they go thru reporters like poo thru a goose Putting out a daily rag has got to be a big job though and in these days of declining readership due to the %@#$&*ed internet and the Daily Show or what ever it’s even trickier. It’s easy taking pot shots and many are well deserved but I give them a certain amount of credit as well.

6 On Feb 15, 12:51 pm, THartill wrote:

Pierce

Like I said I don’t really mind people calling trying to sell things, just the idea that a local business is using the services of call centers in other states to get around our higher Min Wage.
As far as the internet goes, I bet the Papers that can evolve into more than just a “paper that comes to your doorstep” are doing just fine with the internet. All of them sell ads on their site, so they are still making revenue off readers that don’t have subscriptions.

Guy

Is Forrester the editor of that also? Also interesting that I’ve been getting hits from the Capitol Press lately. They seem to have their own internet provider that the employees use.

As to doing stories about the local bloggers, I highly doubt it. Although there was a short story in the Oregonian about Jack Bog and BlueOregon and Loaded Orygun are mentioned quite frequently.

8 On Feb 15, 04:14 pm, Mom of Three wrote:

See? That lack of wanting to do stories like a local bloggers one is one of the reasons why people don’t actually read them. There are a number of subcultures in the area that would make fiery and interesting reading, but if they percieve an insult to their paying advertisers or a possible drain from their circulation…well, there you have it.

Our favorite sections of the Daily A were:

Dear Annie (Eldest loves that, but we often have to substitute terms when I read it to her—she doesn’t need to know about some things), the comics and the kids page.

I get my “classifieds” on craigslist.org, download world news and national news on my free podcasts, bleep into cnn.com for the superficial stuff every so often. If they want me to subscribe, they have to be indispensible to me, and that is going to be on the local level.

10 On Feb 18, 06:38 pm, Joe Altieri wrote:

I, for one, am glad that they don’t do stories on local bloggers …
Last Summer, I was ‘let go’ as Photographer for two reasons, 1) That
I ‘ran all over town flashing a Press Pass’ – untrue, and 2) My website contained ‘conspiracy theories’ – also untrue. It’s a page of
2000 links, mostly paranormal, and junk science, etc. With that kind
of analysis, and the recent ‘attack’ on Peter and Susan Trubacco, I
fear they have replaced real journalism with editorial opinion. At
least some of Glenn Taggert’s emails have freely circulated – again,
while I’m not pro-LNG, as Northstar Natural Gas can verify, when the
local newspaper becomes a British Tabloid, I can find better use of
my reading time, sorry Patrick …BTW I have over 1200 webpages, so
I’m linking astoriamovies.com, perhaps the ‘least offensive’ and
mainstream of anything I do … thanks.