How newspaper bailout might work

[Questor]

Newspapers re-structured as non-profits. Hmmm. NPR times 1000.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/59523-obama-open-to-newspaper-bailout-bill

[rockbilly]

I understand the computer has really hurt the newspaper industry.  Links such as the one below provide all the news one could ask for, yet provides little or no income for the newspaper.

http://www.hometownnews.com/

[Graybeard]

It lists my home area paper but when you click you get nothing. They allow only folks who pay to get a hard copy to view it online so ya can't click into it thru the site like most. I'm not sure how they even hang on these days really. The owner is a bleeding heart liberal of the worst order. He and Klinton were big buds. I wonder if he and osama are now.

[pastorp]

It's true some local newspappers block their news from the internet without a supscription but others don't.

The Anchorage daily news is available, at least in part, online. While Ketchikan daily news blocks theirs.

Regards,

[powderman]

The Louisville Courier journal is available online. Bunch of liberal scum. POWDERMAN. 

[Questor]

The concept of the bailout is a trial balloon.

[powderman]

Hate to say it but most of these newspapers are simply ultra liberal rags that has a totally lefty agenda and deserve to go under, but then, we'd have nothing. Once in a while a reporter will actually print the truth, but they don't last long. POWDERMAN. 

[rockbilly]

Many of these newspapers may be liberal but I have used this site to get information out to the public and have been successful in having “Letters to the Editor” printed in a bunch of them.  A while back when there was a great push on for amnesty I wrote a letter and forwarded it to 100 different newspapers all over the country, sixty-six of my letters were published.  I know this many were published because I was contacted by the editors for my approval to make them public, some may have been published without my approval.

I think a lot of the links that can not be opened only ask you to register in order to gain access.  There may be a few that require you to subscribe to their paper but I didn’t find any.

[MGMorden]

My local newspaper (actually there are a few, but there's one "big" one at www.charleston.net) has always seemed compleltely accessible from the internet.  Truthfully though I don't go there very often.  For classifieds Craigslist has taken over and for real news news.google.com aggregates feeds from all over. 

Truthfully, I just think paper newspapers may have reached the end of their useful life.  I'm sure there's market support enough to support a few of them, but not the number of them that once were published (seems like every small town has or had a newspaper, and every city of any size had lots of them).  If the market doesn't want them anymore then I see no reason for any bailout to keep them around.  Let them die like the buggy-whip manufacturing industry did when cars made them irrelevant.

[torpedoman]

 I'm old and stuck in my ways, and one of the real nice things in life is having a paper with your morning coffee. (even when it is a half mile atv ride to get it from the box by the road.)

[Graybeard]

I think a lot of the links that can not be opened only ask you to register in order to gain access.  There may be a few that require you to subscribe to their paper but I didn’t find any.

The Anniston Star (Alabama) requires you be a subscriber to view their site online. Been that way for years. Even when I place an ad for my blueberry farm in their classifieds I can't see my own ad I paid for because I'm not a subscriber to their rag.