RIP Medford Mail-Tribune

[micropolitan guy]

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

 

[HanSenSE]

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

 

[DanOregon]

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

 

[I Should Coco]

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.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

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

 

[Twirling Time]

When CherryRoad gives you a hard pash as it did this publication, that's an ominous sign.

FIFY

 

[micropolitan guy]

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

The Ashland paper shut down several years ago.

So the closest daily is K Falls or Grants Pash.

 

[Tarheel316]

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

I blame soccer.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

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! fork 'em, tho, we don't have to pay them when we print online. Then she misquotes Heraclitus.

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

 

[Vombatus]

Heraclitus?

 

[HanSenSE]

I blame soccer.

It might.

 

[WriteThinking]

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.