Thursday, January 29, 2009
Media Liberal Kansas
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:15 PM
There's a nice little story over here about a newspaper war in a tiny town in Kansas named Liberal. A publisher quit his paper when the owners tried to cut the paper to three-day-a-week publication.
You should read the whole thing, but here is the money quote:
Suddenly, Liberal — population 20,000 and nestled in the Kansas prairie — became a two-paper town. A third publication, a weekly, seeks the same readers and advertisers, too."You are going to see communities rise up," Watt said. "Just as communities don't want to lose their schools and grocery store ... they don't want to see their newspaper gone either."
What happened next has caught the flailing newspaper industry's attention: Watt and his renegade band of workers bought a $150,000 printing press and in May began publishing a daily newspaper, the High Plains Daily Leader.
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First off, isn't that a picture of Jim Horne, male model whose obit I read in the Sunday NYT?
I wish that the community, unions, progressive groups would rise up and pool resources to buy the PI, but it seems like that would be throwing money down a rathole at this point.
Big props to Mr. Watt and the High Plains Daily Leaderthough.
I wish that the community, unions, progressive groups would rise up and pool resources to buy the PI, but it seems like that would be throwing money down a rathole at this point.
Big props to Mr. Watt and the High Plains Daily Leaderthough.
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