Make sure you let your local paper know exactly why you’re cancelling. If your paper subscribes to the AP wire (and almost every paper does), let them know that is part (or all) of the reason.

If your paper published a particularly anti-Palin or anti-Republican article; or if it published a fawning “tingly leg” type article about Obama; cite that article and its author/source as part of your reason. Make sure they know why they’re losing revenue.

I cancelled my local paper 6 months ago. They actually have the whole thing online WYSIWYG for free! They used to require a subscriber login, but they gave that up almost a year ago. I’m not sure why.

The Rocky Mountain News is for sale, and the Denver Post isn’t far behind. My local paper The Coloradoan is ridiculously liberal. They wouldn’t even show up for a press conference for a local Republican State Senate candidate earlier this year.

Fortunately, we have our own Drudge-like news source in Colorado where we can get the important news.

The left-wing bias may be only a part of the traditional media’s decline, but every thing helps along extinction. I just hope Bush, possibly at McCain’s urging, doesn’t bail out the newspaper industry.

calls for a bailout of the newspaper industry and sends the money with strings attached that tell them what they can publish?

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

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Wither and die print media, wither and die. Eat your just deserts.

Now all we have to do is find a way to kill the braodcast networks and we will actually have a chance to win again.

We have already canceled our subscription to the Clarion Liar…I mean the Clarion Ledger here in Mississippi. We have had enough of that liberal nonsense!

Don’t just cancel your newspaper and boycott the Liberal Propoganda television outlets, stay away from their websites too!!! Every visit to cnn.com or your local newspaper’s website helps them generate advertising revenue on the internet.

Even though YOU’RE not paying by going to your local newspaper’s website, they are getting paid BECAUSE you went to their website!

She could very well be deserving of the honor.

Her portrayal of Palin on SNL was awesome…everyone loved it.

30 Rock is the best sitcom on TV.

There are so many other reasons to hate the AP and Reuters. This is just silly.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch makes the NYT look like the WashTimes. I cancelled my sub when my kid got done with the history class that required him to use newspaper clippings for current events. My wife saw some ad the other day wanting us to subscribe for like $1.89 a week. My response: NFW…I wouldn’t give them $1.89 a decade.

I am way ahead of you, Bob – as is, I bet, the huge majority of RS regulars. But like you (and several commenters) say, there is plenty of more damage to do to them all.

By “cutting down” on our subscriptions we are saving the planet and preventing global warming. No trees felled, no newspaper. Who says we are not responsive to urgent issues.

– exactly just who is going to be fired?

I doubt many editors and reporters will be on the chopping block – they still have a job to do. It is going to be the production and press folks who get the ax. The delivery people will be out of work.

Canceling your print subscription is fine. But, you also must never go to the newspaper website. Block it in your browsers as you would other offensive sites. The danger, of course, is cutting yourself off from any newsource, biased or not.

The cost of news print in the age of digital information is going to force news organizations to move entirely online. So far, the pricing and subscription practice has kept that from happening. I think once a news organization develops an online pricing scheme and phases it in as they phase out the print product (or at least home delivery, as some Michigan papers are doing) the shift will begin. Will people pay for their news? I know they haven’t so far, but it has all been free. I think this is in the process of changing.

Journalism isn’t going anywhere, folks. And neither is bias. In fact, it’s probably only going to get worse over the next four years.

I got fed up with this rag years ago. I don’t even glance at the headlines anymore.

It’s not just the local or national papers but the entire MSM that is self-destructing. The next 2 to 4 years could see them become completely insignificant. (One can only hope!)

Collect and broadcast ideas that will make it easier for average citizens to give up their newspaper (e.g., get coupons from other places) or NOT support a biased local paper (e.g., DON’T follow links to other websites that originate from the biased paper’s website).

We can use this site as a platform to push this “cause” (for lack of a better word). In so doing, we can do our part to wound those biased newspapers that tried to hard to hurt our side in the 2008 elections.

Last paper I subscribed to was the LAT and that was 14 years ago. I’ve gotten my news online for free since then (OK, I buy things like the NY Post issue with “Axis of Weasels” on the cover). The dead tree media cannot die soon enough. We should be so lucky. Folks bemoan the loss of journalism. It’s already occurred. There is no such thing as journalism.

they hired a Washington Post Editor I called them that day really didn’t care if I got the next 6 months of money back but I did…..which is why I get disturbed by the Washington Times headlines on this site each day….they are not the conservative paper they once were!

A Modest Prosposal to Counter Global Warming;
http://tinyurl.com/8dp297
(March 3, 2007)