Today is the day you can't buy a print edition of a local newspaper.
Not Scranton.
Not Wilkes-Barre.
Not Hazleton.
Not Pottsville.
Not happy.
People just don't buy print editions of newspapers the way they once did. Advertisers are finding other ways to get their message across. Costs keep rising.
I fear this is just the beginning.
Yes, there are internet versions of all the papers that have given up on Mondays. It's not the same. There is nothing like the pre dawn "thump" of the newspaper hitting the front porch, peeling it open to learn what you didn't know the day before...
I'm sure there is great frustration because the presses will not roll as one of the major stories of the year, the death of Bishop James Timlin, develops.
Times change, and not necessarily for the better.
