I hear the Hurl will, as of May, be published six days a week. I wonder if the subscription rate will stay the same?

I wonder how long until it becomes a weekly publication not a daily.

Mondays are out, I am told, because that's the lowest ad revenue day of the week.

If the paper loses a day between the time when TDW went from six to seven days and back to six days, we'll all be long dead and gone. (Just over 30 years)

Thanks for the encouragement.

Just to let you know that even though I never read the printed news other than obituaries and a bit of local stuff I have 36 years of uninterrupted subscription to TDW including now, living several thousand miles away, with an electronic subscription. I want a local paper to exist. The Internet supplies the bulk of my news needs though.

Do you really think a paper version of TDW will be around in 30 years?

As do I. However, there are much better tabloids than the one this has become upon which one should spend their hard earned dollars.



Yep... and Jon Stewart.

Going backward to answer your question:

A paper version in 30 years? Yes. Not like this one, but a daily paper version? Yes. Just my opinion...

Thank you for the electronic subscription. Every little bit helps...

Although I am sure you know this, TS, I feel compelled to state for the record that I am an unabashed supporter of the Hurl's rank and file; the failing here is not in the efforts of the worker bees but in the general incompetence of the higher powers.

I just don't see a daily paper existing in thirty years. Where I live now we have a weekly paper that is a hot commodity and, unlike daily papers, people tend to keep it around to reread feature articles and, yes, advertising.

In TDW there is local news, obituaries, local advertising and letters to the editors. Oh yes, there is a lot of two day old world and national news that is almost embarrassing to have included because not only do we know about that news we probably already know how it concludes.

So we have local news, obituaries, letters to the editor and advertising that is fresh, uncovered by other sources, and worth buying or subscribing to the paper.

Then we have the advertisers group of which I have also been and still am a member of. They want their advertising to be read, to sit on a shelf and people to be able to refer back to it. That does not require a daily version, though.

Shelf life is important to them. For shelf life you need very informative articles, features that are interesting and the obituaries, local news, etc. Interesting reading to keep them around. The bottom of a bird cage is not important.

The breaking news? From TDW: The newspaper will continue to post breaking news on its Web site, www.thedaily­world. That lines up with what I would envision.

In my opinion as soon as the generation of paper readers who can't use the Internet fades, the only sustainable business model for most newspapers will be what I have described in a weekly or twice weekly version with a daily electronic version.

Would that be the local management, the Stephens Media Group management, or both? Really I'm curious as to your perspective as to the question.