Courier Journal Genius!

What is the biggest draw when it comes to news papers?  There are two, actually, and neither have much to do with each other.  One is the sports section and the other is coupons.  Without those two things, most newspapers would have folded long ago.  I made the executive decision several years ago to forgo the coupons and read the newspaper sports columns from the net.  This is even with the most horrid load times of any site I visit and this is also with some of the worst pop ups and forced marketing there is.

Well, it seems the Courier Journal has decided that their sports columnists’ opinions are worth paying for even with the forced marketing and horrid opinions and will start charging you if you wish to read them on the day they are printed.  So ladies and gentlemen, I signal to you the beginning of the end of local newspaper media as we know it.  The local papers have done such a horrid job of keeping up with the news in a way that people want it that most have simply stopped buying the product.  Why do these idiots think we want to buy their crap on the net if we don’t want to buy it from the stands?  I would think most people would still be supporting the local printed media if they half way did their job.

Let me ask you an insanely absurd question..  Would you pay an on-line subscription to read Jerry Tipton?  I can’t stand even reading what he says when they try to force it down my throat for free, assuming the adware they force on us is considered free!

I really do feel sorry for the support personnel at the Courier who will most certainly lose their jobs.  They are already required to take a percentage of time off without pay every quarter to off set the companies inadequacies. Now they must rely on us, the consumer, paying good money to read the BS we already attempt to ignore as much as possible.  Those articles have been nothing more than train wrecks for years!  You know it’s gonna be ugly, but its free so you gotta look anyway.  I’ve never known anyone that would actually pay to see a train wreck, and I doubt people would start now.

I would have to think the better option would have been to fire the holier than thou A holes that write for these rags and hire some people who could relate to their audience.  It seems to me that is what the local on-line media does that actually has a following.  All we can hope is that the LHL follows suit with the same plan as the Courier after they go belly up, or sooner.  The local blogs have provided information in a much more entertaining way and at a much faster rate!  What this means now is people will get the free version of the Courier BS a day later, which isn’t really that big of a deal other than I probably won’t visit so I won’t even get to enjoy their pop ups.