It's hard to believe there were any left to cut. They asked for comment, so here's what I wrote to their "content" editor.
Ten years ago, everyone I knew subscribed to the Journal. Today, I am the only person I know who does. On my street, the red paper boxes have disappeared. You may think that this fall in subscriptions is the cause of your layoffs, but I believe that it is the effect. The IJ staff is spread so thin that this is no longer a local paper at all. Meanwhile, school districts and municipalities are gleeful because nobody is attending their meetings and reporting on their activities. The Fourth Estate is dead, long live corruption and mismanagement. I remain a subscriber out of loyalty and inertia, but it’s harder every year to justify the expense.
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Like me with the PoJo, which we read basically for the Jumble and Doonesbury and the nutcase letters. Oh, and the wacky Poughkeepsie Mention feature, where they note anytime Poughkeepsie is mentioned in a book or movie. Always negatively.
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