Comments on: Setting the record straight, sort of

by: Paul

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:45:38 +0000

Rick makes a good point. The paper product, which pays the bills, is being degraded to the point where I must go to the internet version just to get the missing news. I live inside the beltline and could always count on a complete sports page with West Coast scores. Now I don’t even get Midwest scores in the paper many mornings. So, I go to the computer for them. Like Sheila, the day will come when I say I’m not going to pay anymore because I’m already firing up the computer every morning. I may as well read everything that way.

At that point, I will become part of the problem by not being a paying customer any longer.

by: Sheila

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:10:16 +0000

Damn, I’m glad I got laid off last year. It would be painful to try to defend the paper at this point. I paid for 13 more weeks recently, but am probably going to cancel after that. It makes me sad, not just because it’s the paper I worked at for over 10 years, but because I’ve been reading a newspaper regularly since I was 7 years old, when I was introduced to the Washington Post. I feel like a part of me is dying.

by: grumpy

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:48:33 +0000

Too bad Mr. Quarles didn’t mention that the “Old Reliable” was planning on taking all company cell phones away from their employees as yet another cost cutting measure. Welcome back to the 1980’s……

by: Rick

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:32:52 +0000

Yea, but it’s the papers delivered to our driveways that are keeping them afloat. Sure, the future may be the Web but as a subscriber, I feel like the paper has sometimes forgotten about us low-tech suscribers while it’s chasing that amorphous “virtual reader” with 1001 blogs and other gimmicks.

On the other hand, Just this morning I tried to find on the online edition the tribute written today about Jerry Richardson’s mother (which is not there) to forward to somebody outside this area. The N&O’s website is slow, ponderus and difficult to navigate. No wonder the WRAL website kicks their butts.

by: BP

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:55:16 +0000

What’s that comedian’s line, “are you going to believe your lying eyes, or me?”. Nothing says trouble like a full page add.

by: Glory3

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:09:50 +0000

Dan, I lived in Greenville, SC for 30 something years and worked for Belk, who had a major ownership in the Greenville News. I worked my way up to Sales Promotion Director, so I know all about newspaper advertising. When I read the full page bs Sunday, I told my husband that someone very gifted in copywriting wrote that “letter” to us. This is no joke: I use the N&O to line our kitty litter box when we’re through reading it on Sunday. It now takes both the Sunday AND the Saturday paper to line it. When we moved here in ‘01, I went with the N&O, instead of the Durham paper, even though we live in Durham, because it had better news, a more readable format, etc. It is very sad that the publisher has to write a letter to his subscribers to justify why they’re going down the tubes.