03-18-2021, 09:58 AM
(03-17-2021, 06:25 PM)plam Wrote:(03-17-2021, 11:06 AM)westwardloo Wrote: Unfortunately I do not see this as a good sign for keeping the Record mostly local. I wish more people would support local media, but I think it is inevitable that the record will have a few local "reporters" and the rest of the work will be done from the toronto office. This is what CTV Kitchener does. Most of the news is run through the toronto office with a couple of staff located locally. It is too bad everything has become so consolidated and centralized, if feels less personal when I know it is produced by toronto. I enjoy reading the record and feel like they are part of this regions identity...
Sigh, capitalism. There are a couple of small-town US newspapers that have been started outside this whole hedge fund megaconsolidation ownership thing, which I think has been really harmful in many areas including this one.
Yes ... but it's really difficult when so many people are unwilling to pay for a subscription, whether paper or electronic. Advertising can't carry the newspaper business any more.