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Is this Slashdot story a harbinger of things to come, or a one off? The various stories I've seen on falling circulation numbers points towards harbinger I read the NY Times and WaPo a lot, but I rarely buy the hardcopy. Here's the upshot of the story:
"The LA Times announced that it is folding its national edition on 12/31/04. The Times spokesperson said the paper's mission has been to reach 'key Washington, D.C., and New York audiences,' and that 'other electronic ways of reaching those audiences became more plentiful.' The folding edition will be replaced by "remote printing" by NewspaperDirect, and their email highlights, Top of the Times. Is this the way all our newspapers will be going?"
A Seattle rooming-house tenant saw his rent jacked 107 percent, from $375 to $775. I suggested such extreme sticker shock amounted to an "economic eviction." And maybe ought to be illegal. The city shrugged. Yes, a few hundred tenants added their horror stories. But I also got a laissez-faire lathering.
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