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Gannett/USAToday seem to own about every local paper anymore. Their business model is to charge a low price, then jack it up in a year hoping you won't notice.
by silisili 3y ago
Gannett/USAToday seem to own about every local paper anymore. Their business model is to charge a low price, then jack it up in a year hoping you won't notice. Then not offer refunds and make you call and wait a long time to cancel. My last experience canceling was so bad I'll never sign up with another of their papers.
All of that out of the way, this lawsuit has merit IMO. Google's ad monopoly should be broken up, or at worst better regulated. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, for now, and all that.
- bluGill 3y agoTheir strategy is to also not have enough reporters to cover local issues. Local newspapers used to put in a lot of effort to find the news. Other than the local high school sports (which they cover more than the small local papers used to )
- Rebelgecko 3y agoMy parents still subscribe to a Gannett paper for some reason even though they always talk about how awful it has become. All of the news is 2 days old because the actual newspapers are printed in another state now. I know one of their journalists who lives about 150 miles from the area that the newspaper covers since they don't pay him enough to live in the locale he's writing about.
- dehrmann 3y agoIs it a strategy, or the reality that they can't afford enough reporters?
- bluGill 3y agoI don't know, but the small papers they bought out did better
- shadowgovt 3y ago"The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy; no more, no less." ~ Maxim 29. But I'm content to grab popcorn and watch a dinosaur fight a dragon on this one. Neither company here has clean hands and it's high time someone spent the money to force Congress and the courts to step in and lay some ground rules for the sandbox so all the kiddies can play together nicely.
- davidw 3y agoI got to know some local reporters, being involved in local politics, and... Gannett is pretty awful.
- ipaddr 3y agoWould a good strategy be to open up competing paper fully staffed, win the market then sell out. Rise, repeat profit?
- silisili 3y agoBelieve it or not, this strategy is pretty common in the garbage collection industry, or so I hear.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoTheir site design, ad choices, and business practices don't have anything to do with their claim: Google is an online advertising monopoly.