Clarion Ledger = Fail

I'm 3,000 miles from Mississippi, but I do know a lot of papers have cut back on distribution as well as cutting the newshole and staff.

One paper I worked at did that, cutting home distribution in a rural county, figuring the revenue didn't cover the expense. Got a shit-storm of hate mail and restarted it about a month later.

 

The C-A stopped delivering to Northern Miss.? I don't think that's a good move on their part.

 

The funny thing, they have been in not-so-secret talks in the past year or two about taking their printing out of Memphis and moving it east. That always seemed like more of a negotiating tactic with their unions, but it was certainly discussed at high levels.

 

I call bullshit on this entire thread.

I mean, c'mon, bookstores in Mississippi?

 

Ask John Grisham.

 

I call bullshit too.
I mean, sunning yourself in Jackson?

 

My grandfather, who lived in Columbus, much preferred the Commercial Appeal to the Clarion-Ledger, and until late in his life only subscribed to the Appeal. I think the only reason he finally started getting the Ledger was for the obits. As he used to joke, "as long as I don't see my name in there, then I guess I'm OK."

BTW, HH, we also get the state edition of the Ledger down here, and there have been a couple of rare occasions when some MSU, Ole Miss or USM basketball or baseball games haven't made the state edition.

Can't recall off the top of my head if they've ever not gotten a Big Three football result in on Sunday, though. Perhaps the 7-OT Ole Miss-Arkansas game?

 

I always flinch when I think about that game ... I had only been on the desk here 3 or 4 weeks when that went down. My goodness. People kept running from the press room to the news room saying, "What are we gonna do?"

Me: "We're going to wait for the game to end."

That game is the source for one of my immutable rules of life: "If it's the last play and you have to score, throw the ball over the goal line."

 

I thought that game ended fairly early, like 8:30 or 9 p.m.?

 

Maybe if you were on the West Coast.

 

Well, one of the two Barnes and Noble's in my town no longer sells daily papers.
I haven't been to the other to check.
So maybe B&N is getting out of the business of selling daily newspapers?

Anyone else notice the same thing happening in their towns?

 

I've been to a few B&Ns where they didn't have the papers sitting out. At one, I went to the counter and asked where they were. They said people were taking them without paying, so they keep them behind the counter. There's probably some parallel there, but I'm too gassy to figure it out.