Message: 10 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:19:03 -0600 From: Shawne FitzGerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Mpls] News coverage & community newspapers
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I thought it was interesting that the essay ignored consolidation and the dailies repositioning themselves as metro-area or statewide newspapers - with a tremendous loss in local news coverage. In Minneapolis, the response was a growth of weekly and community newspapers. These tend to be the best sources of local news - the problem for a citywide reader is tracking down copies! Is newspaper readership really down? Or, are we just reading other newspapers?
Two points: One is that the Strib is publishing special sections called North, West and South only in those parts of the metro, and they feature plenty of local news. We don't see those detailed local stories in the Minneapolis edition of the paper, but the folks in Apple Valley and places like that do.
Second, local independent papers are looking better than I can ever remember and I pick up all I can every time I see 'em. These are the people who get my support, and your darned right I see whose advertising in them and patronize those businesses.
Karen Cooper [makes the trip to South Lyndale Liquors in Tangletown to get my copy of the excellent "Minneapolis Observer" every week, and I think they have it at Betsey's Back Porch as well]
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