Well the hardreading staff opened up the old mailbag yesterday and what should pour out but this email from the Boston Herald.
How you can help the local business of delivering local news
Local news is in danger.
Coronavirus and stay-at-home orders have forced many local businesses to close. If a business closes, it’s not likely to advertise. The result has been a dramatic decline in the advertising revenue that supports local news organizations like ours.
To offset the losses, we have furloughed staff, cut back on the size of the newspaper to save newsprint costs and reduced other expenses. We don’t want to do any more of that. Deeper cuts jeopardize our ability to deliver a comprehensive daily report that keeps you up to date on the latest developments in your community . . .
The only way local news like ours will survive is through the support of readers like you.
That’s rich coming from a newspaper whose hedge fund owners at Alden Global Capital have stripped it like a car left overnight on the Cross Bronx Expressway.
(See our kissin’ cousins at One-Daily Town for further details.)
To recap: The vampire capitalists get to suck the lifeblood out of the scrawny local tabloid and we’re expected to provide a transfusion?
Pass the garlic, please.
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