Sunday, May 3, 2009

Sshhh!.... News & Observer quietly raises single copy price to 75 cents... Sunday goes to $2 (updated)

A reader passes on news that The Raleigh News & Observer has quietly raised its prices:
The News & Observer announced a single-copy price increase effective Monday, May 4. Going to $.75 Mon - Sat and $2.00 Sundays. I'm not sure if this has been posted here previously, but the only sign I've seen of it was a small notice in the corner of page A-2.

UPDATE: Just remembered that N&O executive editor John Drescher explained in January that the N&O was selling the Obama Book and other Obama merchandise to bring in more money. He hoped selling Obama merchandise would help the N&O employ as many journalists as possible. It's obvious the N&O didn't make nearly enough money selling the Obama trinkets.
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22 comments:

Anonymous said...

So just how does McClatchy know it's Marxist base will continue pay more for their version of Pravda?

Because they know their liberal base has extra money saved from not paying taxes.

Anonymous said...

OMG this is shocking! Those liberals have done it again.

Anonymous said...

Hey McClatchy brainiacs, the worst possible time to raise prices is during a recession.

Anonymous said...

The Charlotte Observer makes the same increase. At least they put out a Dear Readers letter.

Anonymous said...

Damned Socialists and their responding-to-market-conditions ways! Why, at this rate, there'll be another price hike in 2024!

Anonymous said...

2024? You jest! You must mean either at 2024 hours, 20-24 hours, or 20-24 days.

Finally, in 2024 a.d. they will have been bankrupt for 15 years.

Davey Gravy D. is this you?

Anonymous said...

Um, what?

Anonymous said...

Another astute business decision, when something is basically worthless, increase the price. That makes worthlessness more attractive.

Anonymous said...

Feds probing if Edwards used
campaign funds to hide affair

Raleigh News & Observer
by Mandy Locke
RALEIGH, N.C. — Federal investigators are sifting through the records of money that helped John Edwards' presidential campaign to determine if any was used to keep quiet his affair with Rielle Hunter. Edwards, a Democrat and former U.S. senator, acknowledged the investigation.

Anonymous said...

Edwards acknowledges probe
over campaign funds
Associated Press,
by Mike Baker

RALEIGH, N.C.--Two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is acknowledging a federal inquiry into his campaign funds.(Snip)He says he has made people and information available to resolve the issue in a timely manner.(Snip)A range of nonprofit and political groups that have been linked to Edwards have been under public scrutiny, including payments his political action committee made to a woman with whom he had an affair.

Anonymous said...

DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA, OH OK

Shed no tears as Boston Globe fat gets Pinched

The Boston Globe is dying this weekend, one way or the other. It probably lingers on a while longer, on life support, a Terri Schiavo of journalism, but this comedy is ending the way it was destined to.

Labor is caving, management is winning. Pinch Sulzberger, it so predictably turns out, is only a liberal with other people’s money. So now the rich kids in New York do away with seniority and the “lifetime” job guarantees for their fellow silver spoons in Boston.

Sorry, comrades. The Velvet Coffin is being shoved into the crematorium. Maybe you can get a job from Barack Obama.

Anonymous said...

The socialist N&O is covering up for Edwards again. Oh, hang on, they broke the story ... Well, they're still socialists.

Anonymous said...

Edwards being investigated for campaign fraud is not exactly amazing. What would have been amazing is if the feds would NOT have investigated him. Everyone in America knows his campaign paid this woman at least $100k and lied about it. Good journalism would have been to look into this fraud before the federal investigation was public. The N&O did nothing.
Editor Dresser canned the last story on Edwards. He still hasn't explained that decision.

Anonymous said...

Well, actually, he did explain it in a column. Which is how you know The N&O held it. And it's spelled Drescher.

The paper, like most, is extremely leery of scandal stories based entirely on unnamed sources. So that is why it takes a while for National Enquirer stories (the true ones, that is) to make it into the mainstream press.

Anonymous said...

WHEN IT COMES TO DEMOCRATS, LIBERALS, THE PRESS, OR MARXISTS..

..BUT NEVER EVER WITH REPUBLICANS,... The paper, like most, is extremely leery of scandal stories based entirely on unnamed sources. So that is why it takes a while for National Enquirer stories (the true ones, that is) to make it into the mainstream press.

THERE, FIXED IT FOR YOU

Anonymous said...

Melanie, is that you working on a Sunday?

Anonymous said...

Well, maybe folks were a little faster off the mark with David Vitter. But that's just because the idea of Mr. Family Values wearing a diaper with a prostitute is so funny.

And let's not even get on with Larry Craig. Too easy.

Now, does Newt dumping his dying wife at her sickbed count as a scandal? Because at least he let her know he was playing around.

Anonymous said...

2:25 PM You know, you've tweaked my interest. I am reading your arguments and sitting here wondering. You're from the San Francisco area, are you not?

I am just curious because that is the only place I have ever been where I hear your retreaded juvenile arguments, recycled over and over again and pass as proof of something or a pearl of wisdom.

Anonymous said...

Just think, if it wasn't for Edwards, Clinton would now be president. He pulled many of her supporters and when he did get out, his supporters went to Obama.

It is a shame when the National Enquirer has to report one of the biggest election story going on.

Personally, I am glad. I have always been for Obama.

On the other hand, right wing nuts like many of you, were saved from the dreaded one, Clinton.

Why did the regular media not cover this story?

I have always wondered. They would have got the BIG prize for that story.

Anonymous said...

Speaking of San Francisco, I went to a Starbucks in the bay area around 11:00 am for coffee, and to see if the paper was selling.

Chronicle: Lot's of $2 papers lying around. Very thin on content, but remarkably a lot of Sunday advertisements. Got to give them credit for that.

NY Times: Many unsold $5 papers.

Does or will anyone here, aside from subscriptions, buy a $5 paper?

Anonymous said...

"Another astute business decision, when something is basically worthless, increase the price. That makes worthlessness more attractive."

May 3, 2009 11:30 AM

hey genius, the car companies have been doing this for years and they're now getting a bailout...but hey you're probably some dips$*t who works on an assembly line......keep typing...you make yourself look more like an idiot with every keystroke

Anonymous said...

"The car companies have been doing this for years and they're now getting a bailout"

So everyone just keep failing, and don't worry, the government will always bail you out?

Hey "feces for brains" what planet did you come from? Go back to the food stamp, welfare line, and watching jerry springer

As a dull-normal, how did you ever make it into a library, find the free computer, let alone this site?