RIP Medford Mail-Tribune

Southern Oregon will no longer have a daily paper, either print or online. This used to be a very good paper when it was owned by the New York Times.

https://www.oregonlive.com/business...wspaper-in-medford-to-abruptly-shut-down.html

 

That's gonna cost a lot of kids some scholarships.

 

A damn shame - has any "alternative" type website started up? Is Ashland still running?

 

Interesting — and sad — that they went all in on digital and it didn’t save them.

Between there and Ashland, that’s a fairly well populated area with no newspaper.

 

When GateHouse bails on you as it did this publication, that’s an ominous sign.

 

FIFY

 

The Ashland paper shut down several years ago.

So the closest daily is K Falls or Grants Pass.

 

I blame soccer.

 

Here's a newspaper that is going to just one day a week from two. Because people don't read anymore and prefer to watch videos. And they stopped doing even that when the coastal elites pushed NYC and LA news on flyover country. Everyone except for this editor. Who prefers Vanilla Pepsi, but they won't make it just for her. (Narrator: They still make it.) And let's not even talk about the salaries for pressmen! Fuck 'em, tho, we don't have to pay them when we print online. Then she misquotes Heraclitus.

https://moberlymonitor.com/stories/...re59F3MHVqb6gz-sWvsY9cO6zz9cEU7fdjXhP225lGrZA

 

Heraclitus?

 

It might.

 

Unfortunately, it seems that hardly anyone cares about reading, real news, or democracy, anymore.

Despite the pervasiveness of digital/online media operations and functions and the ubiquity of phones and the fact that people are virtually glued to them nowadays, there is actually less interconnection, in meaningful ways, than ever before. Most knowledge is surface-level and communication is minimal and skin-, text- or headline-deep.

Caring, about anything or anyone beyond ourselves, has pretty much gone out the window. This is just another indication of that, on a wider scale.