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This is very sad.

But wait, maybe there is a bright side. Is Canzano losing his job?

barfo
 
It's just their way of saying they're tired of informing everyone and will now narrow their audience by cutting off the elderly and the poor.
 
Ok, it's been 20 minutes, I'm over it now. It is sad, just like it's sad that they don't make candy cigarettes or Studebakers anymore. But the world has moved on, and truth be told, so have I. Although I still subscribe to the 'Big O', many days I don't find time to open it, and when I do, I often find I've already read some of the stories online.

Ah well. I'll always have the memory of delivering the O on my bike at 5-a-fucking-m in the dead of winter, trying to keep a bag of papers that weighed more than me upright on the handlebars while riding on ice.

Yeah, now that I think about it, I've always hated the Oregonian.

barfo
 
Not surprising. Honestly, I figured this would have happened sooner. News papers are dying. Everything is already available for free online. The news they provide is already a day old. With things like twitter we are literally getting news as it is happening. Personally, I'm glad to see print journalism die. The pretentious bastards have held themselves in higher regard for a long time, and it's great to see them brought down a few notches.
 
The articles say that many will lose their jobs. Before he leaves, maybe Canzano will whine one last outrage about the Blazers cutting jobs a few years ago.

This is stupid. The paper will publish 7 days a week and sell on newsstands every day. The only expense saved will be paperboys 3 days a week. Offsetting that will be the decreased price of home delivery by 3/7.

Thread title is wrong. There will be Saturday delivery.
 
jlprk said:
The articles say that many will lose their jobs. Before he leaves, maybe Canzano will whine one last outrage about the Blazers cutting jobs a few years ago.

This is stupid. The paper will publish 7 days a week and sell on newsstands every day. The only expense saved will be paperboys 3 days a week. Offsetting that will be the decreased price of home delivery by 3/7.

Thread title is wrong. There will be Saturday delivery.
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If they aren't delivering three or four days a week, that is significantly less circulation. How many papers are bought from a newsstand or one of the vending machines?
 
jlprk said:
The articles say that many will lose their jobs. Before he leaves, maybe Canzano will whine one last outrage about the Blazers cutting jobs a few years ago.

This is stupid. The paper will publish 7 days a week and sell on newsstands every day. The only expense saved will be paperboys 3 days a week. Offsetting that will be the decreased price of home delivery by 3/7.

Thread title is wrong. There will be Saturday delivery.
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According to the article on Oregonlive:

The Oregonian will continue to be published daily and sold at outlets in the Portland metropolitan area and elsewhere in the state and southwestern Washington. Home delivery will be Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, and include the Saturday edition as a bonus. The Wednesday, Friday and Sunday editions will be enhanced with more content than current editions while the Saturday newspaper will have news and a strong emphasis on sports content, along with classified advertising. Those home delivery subscribers that choose the three-day subscription option will also have access to a digital edition seven days a week. Subscribers will be informed of the new rates in early August.

The Sunday paper will include the Saturday paper. That's only 3 days, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday delivery.
 
Sports writers Paul Buker, John Hunt and Ryan White laid off.
 
The same thing happened to one of the Seattle papers a few years ago...now it seems like all the newspaper guys have left that business and are on the radio now.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
According to the article on Oregonlive:

The Oregonian will continue to be published daily and sold at outlets in the Portland metropolitan area and elsewhere in the state and southwestern Washington. Home delivery will be Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, and include the Saturday edition as a bonus. The Wednesday, Friday and Sunday editions will be enhanced with more content than current editions while the Saturday newspaper will have news and a strong emphasis on sports content, along with classified advertising. Those home delivery subscribers that choose the three-day subscription option will also have access to a digital edition seven days a week. Subscribers will be informed of the new rates in early August.

The Sunday paper will include the Saturday paper. That's only 3 days, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday delivery.
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Everyone reading this board is a sports fan and will take the Saturday option. Therefore, your thread title is wildly inappropriate for your readers. This loses you credibility in this and all future discussions about any subject.

As Shakespeare and JFK said, know who your audience is.
 
jlprk said:
Everyone reading this board is a sports fan and will take the Saturday option. Therefore, your thread title is wildly inappropriate for your readers. This loses you credibility in this and all future discussions about any subject.

As Shakespeare and JFK said, know who your audience is.
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What Saturday option? The Saturday paper will be delivered on Sunday with the Sunday paper. Everyone who gets the Sunday paper will also get the Saturday paper on Sunday.
 
Printed/delivered newspapers are becoming increasingly cost-prohibitive and/or outdated (obsolete). Seemingly, going the way of buggy whips and check writing.
 
barfo said:
Ok, it's been 20 minutes, I'm over it now. It is sad, just like it's sad that they don't make candy cigarettes or Studebakers anymore. But the world has moved on, and truth be told, so have I. Although I still subscribe to the 'Big O', many days I don't find time to open it, and when I do, I often find I've already read some of the stories online.

Ah well. I'll always have the memory of delivering the O on my bike at 5-a-fucking-m in the dead of winter, trying to keep a bag of papers that weighed more than me upright on the handlebars while riding on ice.

Yeah, now that I think about it, I've always hated the Oregonian.

barfo
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SlyPokerDog said:
What Saturday option? The Saturday paper will be delivered on Sunday with the Sunday paper. Everyone who gets the Sunday paper will also get the Saturday paper on Sunday.
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That's illogical. Why would they call it a Saturday paper if it's not delivered Saturday? They would call it a Sunday supplement or they'd be lying. Has Denny fired you yet? Paula Deen wants the job. You can go back to reading the Sunday funnies.

Home delivery will be Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, and include the Saturday edition as a bonus.
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So homebodies who don't get out in their camping trips and barbeques will get the paper bright and early on Saturday as a bonus.
 
jlprk said:
That's illogical. Why would they call it a Saturday paper if it's not delivered Saturday? They would call it a Sunday supplement or they'd be lying. Has Denny fired you yet? Paula Deen wants the job. You can go back to reading the Sunday funnies.



So homebodies who don't get out in their camping trips and barbeques will get the paper bright and early on Saturday as a bonus.
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Denny, if you're going to fire me please let ban jlprk first.
 
ABM said:
Printed/delivered newspapers are becoming increasingly cost-prohibitive and/or outdated (obsolete). Seemingly, going the way of buggy whips and check writing.
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Maybe so, but I love reading a newspaper.
 
I KNEW that Sly is paid. And very well, too. I knew it, knew it, knew it.
 
Why did you accuse our only semi-daily newspaper of lying? You calling them a Willamette Week?

How will you get Quick to answer your calls?
 
There are some places I will NEVER let Canzano go.
 
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