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.
Free markets, free minds, right, Paul?
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.
@2 what a great eye – you’re right!
The damn Liberal media is taking over!
I’ll subscribe to anything the LIBERAL in the name…
how can i read the whole thing if you don’t link to it?