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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/30/09

    In reply to A World Without Detroit Newspaper Auto Coverage?
    In related news, today's Free Press was one 32-page section. I've seen a Freep with less than 32 pages on a weekday, but never one that was just one section.
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    03/30/09

    In reply to A World Without Detroit Newspaper Auto Coverage?
    oh no!!! now what are the birds supposed to crap on!!!
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    03/30/09

    @urbanturban666: My car.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/30/09

    In reply to A World Without Detroit Newspaper Auto Coverage?
    Show of hands. Is there anybody who's not reading Jalopnik on the toilet? Or jacking off right now? Just out of idle curiosity. And it's ok to just show one hand, if that's all you can manage.

    Back on point:

    And here on the Right Coast, you have the Washington Post that consciously decided to become a "local" paper and has all but hung up its investigative spurs. We cancelled home delivery--and that paper was a part of my whole life--now it's almost unrecognizable.
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    03/30/09

    In reply to A World Without Detroit Newspaper Auto Coverage?
    So I'll hafta do the crossword with the Cintiq?


    I'm not saying the trends are related, but the publication formerly known as Autoweek went bi-weekly, then put naked Lewis Hamilton on the cover and had articles about men's watches. Will the papers drop auto coverage for more musical theater reviews?

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/30/09

    @6061-Tsix: Yeah, the crosswords are the best bit about a daily paper these days. Sigh.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    03/30/09

    In reply to A World Without Detroit Newspaper Auto Coverage?
    I know the world is a different place now, but I long for the days when neighborhood kids delivered the paper on their bikes. I had a route when I was 13 - it was a great way to learn about small business and personal responsibility.


    [End Old Fart Mini-Rant]

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    03/30/09

    @Alfisted:I used to be a kid that delivered papers for the Toronto Star. Believe me, it was no fun in the winter.
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    03/30/09

    @Alfisted: I agree. I had a route from the time I was 10 until I turned 16. I saved up enough to buy my first car (1978 Mustang) and a years worth of insurance. I don't think I would let my son get a route these days, not with all the nut cases out there in panel vans...
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    03/30/09

    @Alfisted: Welp, I can imagine enterprising youths going door-to-door offering independent home delivery, picking up papers from the point-of-sale boxes and turning a tidy profit for the delivery service.
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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    03/30/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: I'm already being told that's happening.
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    Image of Neener Neener
    03/30/09

    In reply to A World Without Detroit Newspaper Auto Coverage?
    We're in the digital age baby! And you know what comes next? That's right...digital gauge clusters.
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    03/30/09

    @Neener: And mullets and CB radios and hair bands and tight, ripped jeans.
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    Image of flyingstitch flyingstitch
    03/30/09

    In reply to A World Without Detroit Newspaper Auto Coverage?
    Get ready for a world without home delivery of ANY newspapers, unless you live in one of a handful of big cities. The online substitutes won't fill the gap in professional journalism. And then we'll have a lot more to worry about than a lack of auto coverage.


    /rant from sad, cranky ex-newspaper guy.

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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    03/30/09

    @flyingstitch: Aww, thanks, that's so sweet.
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    03/30/09

    @flyingstitch: We'll always have Ray Wert.
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    03/30/09

    In reply to A World Without Detroit Newspaper Auto Coverage?
    Will the last that leaves Detroit put out the lights.
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    Image of .357 .357
    03/30/09

    In reply to A World Without Detroit Newspaper Auto Coverage?
    So, the 5.25 people in Detroit won't get news? Oh no!
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    03/30/09

    @.357's motto: F*ck The World: That's part of my plan for taking over.
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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    03/30/09

    In reply to A World Without Detroit Newspaper Auto Coverage?
    I'm jealous of the newspaper boxes. We had those when I was a kid, but since then, the delivery people have just been chucking them into the wet yard, killing landscaping in the process. But if that keeps them efficient enough to keep delivering, it's okay with me.


    I love online media, but the paper is still better (just started getting the paper for first time 3 months ago. It's like a novelty in the internet age! And three Sundays of coupon savings pays for the whole year)

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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    03/30/09

    @Ash78: We don't even get the local paper and they still chuck a "sample" of it on our lawn every day. And every day it is soaking wet with dew, and completely unreadable (of course it was unreadable to begin with).
    But I agree it is like a novelty. Occasionally I'll pick one up and marvel at how they've changed (lots more ads, different comics, no local investigative reporting).
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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    03/30/09

    @SirNotAppearing Appearing at LeMons South Spring: Yeah, ours only has a handful of local reporters, it seems. Most of it is AP stuff or syndicated from large papers.


    But for a combo of local and national news, plus local real estate trends, local sports, and syndicated Op-Ed all in one place, it's invaluable. It would take longer to find all that online, even assuming you had bookmarked sources for all of it.


    Never mind the eye strain. And I'm not taking my laptop into the bathroom to read.


    And the coupons. Damn. Goldmine.

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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    03/30/09

    @Ash78: When you grow up playing Paperboy...
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/30/09

    @mr_dude hates this f*cking meme: I grew up playing with Playboy.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/30/09

    @Ash78: You don't Jalop on the shitter? Hell, I know I do.


    I don't wipe-then-type, though.

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    03/30/09

    @pauljones:Mmm... Playboy. Those were the days.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/30/09

    @F*ckingPlushroom: TMI, TMI, TMI.
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    03/30/09

    In reply to A World Without Detroit Newspaper Auto Coverage?
    This is kind of sad, actually. I think this may just be the end of Detroit as we know it.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/30/09

    In reply to A World Without Detroit Newspaper Auto Coverage?
    Not living anywhere nearby, I don't get it: Are they simply not offering home delivery anymore? And they think people are going to pay more and inconvenience themselves by having to go to the store to buy the news on a medium that's rapidly fading from favor?


    Or did they just go bankrupt, fall over, and self-immolate?

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/30/09

    @F*ckingPlushroom: The newspapers here decided to stop delivery service every day except Thurs, Fri, and Sunday. They have a bunch of options including print editions those days and e-editions 7 days, Sunday only and e-edition 7-days. The e-edition is a replica of the newspaper.


    So, they are embracing the web in a way that other newspapers haven't and they are doing it before they have to file for bankruptcy. Hopefully it works out for them.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/30/09

    @f*cking engineerd: Oh, okay. Got it.


    See, that doesn't sound so bad. At least they're still printing the Sunday paper.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/30/09

    @F*ckingPlushroom: Yeah, they are still printing the Sunday paper and you can go online to see the paper the rest of the time. They are still printing the paper 7 days, but except for Thurs, Fri and Sunday you will have to go to a news stand to buy one.


    That should help the party stores and coffee shops.

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    03/30/09

    @f*cking engineerd: I'll take Sunday only and read the fucker online, then.


    Why Thursday? Any real reason? Why not Wednesday/Sunday?

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    03/30/09

    In reply to A World Without Detroit Newspaper Auto Coverage?
    They picked a helluva a news day to stop delivery.
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