As you can see from the stacks of newspaper piled up in one local WaWa, the Daily Times tried to take advantage of their customers and today they're NOT buying it.
The above image was taken after noon today and the complaints I received this morning was that the paper has very little news, (less than usual) and it was loaded with Black Friday Ads.
Look, the Daily Times is in business to make money. Clearly they were forced to raise their price from .25 cents per day to $1.00 per day and $1.50 on Sundays because they had lost so many customers. You don't raise your prices 300% because you're the only game in town.
Many viewers have expressed their displeasure in what they're getting from the Daily Times and quite frankly they simply aren't listening. Those ads, for Black Friday should be the day that they give back to their readers and advertisers. They should charge the normal rate and within the paper offer their thanks for supporting them. Kinda like we do for lost animals. There's no charge. One would think this would encourage people to stick with the Daily Times. Instead, the Daily Times is grabbing whatever they can before they go six feet under.
Pictures do NOT lie Folks. Today's paper is a joke. People don't have the money to go shopping like they used to, or doesn't the Daily Times read those copy and paste AP articles they provide in their own paper. The end is unfortunately very near for the Daily Times, it's that simple.
Someone commented earlier that there's been less than a hand full of comments since they changed to Facebook comments on their on line edition. If it wasn't for the Gannett financial backing, this paper would have been toast a long time ago.
8 comments:
Who wants to pay to read about Ireton's and Mitchell's latest BS?
Who want to read news from three day ago?
Why do you think the dispatch is covering Salisbury. They know the dt's is going down and they'll pick up all of their government announcements as soon as the dt's folds. I wouldn't be surprised if Bassett has a deal ready to go as soon as they shut down.
There are more newspapers in those stacks than comments in the entire online version! They are TOAST!!
The few papers that were bought today were for the Black Friday fliers.
Disgusting that the newspaper took a nice article about what our community leaders are thankful for and stuck in little barbs about conflict - conflict that scummy newspaper stirs up!
The worst was that tasteless mayor of Salisbury's comment, taking a jab at the city council again. That was no place for a comment like that.
Someone tell Ireton I am thankful I don't live in a town with a mayor that acts like a bully 7-year-old!
This year we were thankful to have a roof still over our heads!
JT's back commenting his mindless and meaningless ramblings on the DT's. Another reason to not ever go to their page. They are so stupid. Now all their good commenters are gone and they are stuck with his dumb comments.
They deserve each other.
I read Taylor's comment. He says there was never an issue before w/the Walmart security. The fact is Walmart has never before asked that the officers doing the security be on duty! It's never been an issue before because it's not ever come up! What part of that does the moron not understand?
Put the Civil War fort back where the daily times is located; torn down for construction in that area.
We can use the fort to succeed from Maryland and O'Malley's bull crap and form the 51st State.
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