The rant below sums up what people across political lines feel. It is not just TS, traditional newspapers whose websites are cumbersome and not user friendly lose viewers.
Locally, blogs are current and giving the people what they need.
The online free ride won't last forever, and even LOCO should not be guilty of falling prey to hubris. In the current world of social media, viewer loyalty is as permanent as the next click and the next fascination.
LOCO is smart to link all the local blogs and news sources that people are reading. When the TS folds, a smart entrepreneur would be planning now for some competition for LOCO.
Let editorial do their job, funders do yours. Someone saw Hank's vision, and it is the editorial decisions that bring in the advertising numbers.
Overwhelmingly, we have local media that leans left because they have funders. Advertisers need to realize if they want a voice and results, they need to put their money behind people who have vision. Someone believed in Hank.
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`Times Standard` ... We are done !!! (Fortuna, Ca.)
Your piece of shit paper and I are DONE ! I used to enjoy the Times Standard very much (30 years), but I guess that I`ve just been reading out of habit, because your paper has went steadily down hill for the last few years to the point that it is a total joke ! (I am referring to the `E` edition ... I no longer get the `paper` edition) Constant web problems, and old stories repeated on the guise that "they are the most popular" ? Really ??? When ? Certainly not still after 2-3 years are people trying to read these every day. You`re supposed to report news ... remember ? The only thing that really has kept me looking lately is the `Obits`, but you can`t seem to get that working right for the last couple of MONTHS either. Anyway, probably enough said. Although, when I called to cancel my subscription today, the person answering the phone didn`t know how. She tried (nice girl), but after a few minutes I was told that perhaps it would be better if "I`d contact my bank, and have them cancel any future monthly payments. So that`s what I did, and good bye Times Standard ! Guess I`ll just have to get it all from the `Lost Coast` on-line. They don`t yet have a lot of content, but I`m willing to watch them grow. At least their news is current.
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