My original hometown paper went away years ago - it's just a Saturday mailer full of local events and gossip.

Houston lost the Post in the 90s, and the Chronicle is a sad, vestigial thing.

I guess it's all relative though, because I doubt it folds unlike the small town rags.

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Our town of 2500 still has a weekly paper. It is almost 100% summary of the various local government meetings (school board, city council, county commissioners, etc.) and highlighting all of our school kids from elementary to high school. I can't imagine not having it.

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I would love to have that. I subscribe to the local county daily (which is heavily tilted to one city coverage) for that very purpose. It leaves me wanting most of the time. And it prints craploads of AP articles which is nothing but left wing DNC propaganda. Have come close to canceling multiple times and kick myself every time I renew.

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There are several south of Houston: Friendswood Journal, Pearland Journal, Alvin Sun/Advertiser, Galveston Daily News, and Brazos Facts that still exist. The Alvin Advertiser is still thrown weekly, but is pretty worthless. 80% of the non-advertising is op/ed, some of them VERY long. They aren't all lib, though.

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The GCDN definitely leans left.

There are two types of people in this world: a) those who want to tell you what to do and think, and b) those who don't.

Newspapers are run by the former.

Hate to see the dedicated and hard working B/CS Eagle carriers lose their jobs, but now glad to see that the Eagle "news" is not only fake, it's two or three days late.

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…..seems to have taken away the dampening effect that national, hyped up fake news has on the common person.

Yeah yeah I know they are not profitable business models but the loss of them and their local news and reporting on all fronts has a detrimental cost to those small town.

Grew up in Del Rio Texas and the Del Rio News Herald went out of business some time ago. Just a sad, unfortunate loss.

Has your small home town lost their local newspaper company?

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My brother in law prints a small town paper. It's just him and his boss who keeps attempting suicide who's keeping it going and my BIL is about to retire.

I spent 15 years (1984-1999) in the newspaper business, 5 or so of those years at smaller papers, 10 or so at metros.

Newspaper survived cable, but newspapers didn't survive the internet.

I got out of newspapers in 1999, tried TV for a while, then left all media behind and got into golf another way ... and I've never looked back.

Newspapers were a huge part of my life, but I'm glad I made the move. Plus, I wanted to make more than very modest wages.

That reminds me that I need to get a subscription...

Buffalo Gap Round-Up

Boerne still has the Boerne Star and Port A still has the Port Aransas South Jetty.

FCBlitz said:

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…..seems to have taken away the dampening effect that national, hyped up fake news has on the common person.

Yeah yeah I know they are not profitable business models but the loss of them and their local news and reporting on all fronts has a detrimental cost to those small town.

Grew up in Del Rio Texas and the Del Rio News Herald went out of business some time ago. Just a sad, unfortunate loss.

Has your small home town lost their local newspaper company?

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This is really tough. There's a segment of local TV journalists (like me) who pitch and report mainly community-minded news (what happened at the local city council! A coffee shop on the street corner!). It's a brand of journalism that lends itself well to the NPPA style of visual journalism and the MMJ model, but it doesn't always get clicks. And a 90 second story just can't substitute for a 500 word article about the same thing. It's really tough seeing the demise of community journalism.

Dont care. They made their liberal beds and can sleep in the unemployed line. We have the internet where people who want to do real journalism can do grat work.

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The Longview News Journal is a liberal rag despite being in a red county. I suspect most other local newspapers are as well.

People that pusue careers in journalism tend to be liberal, are surrounded by other liberals, and went to college with mostly liberal peers and professors. That's skewed most of the industry into radical left wing advocacy instead of fact based reporting. It's tremendously destructive on the national level and has enabled corruption at an unimaginable scale. Local papers mostly only contribute to the problem.

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So does this mean that all the other conservative media are not true journalists? What exactly would they be called if they are reporting on politics, current events, etc? Bloggers?

The local paper when I was growing up was the Onion Creek Free Press. It is now called the Hays County Free Press. It covered the area around Buda and Kyle, out to Dripping, Driftwood, Wimberley, San Marcos, Uhland, Niederwald, Creedmoor, and Manchaca. It was owned by an old County family headed by Bob Barton. Bartons had ties to a lot of the old settlers to the area and were heavily connected with the old yellow dog democrats of the area. Pretty sure they had ties going back to LBJ or farther. If you wanted to find out how your kids did at the stock show, read local gossip, or find out what happened at the school board meeting, it was a good paper. If there was anything big or controversial locally, they would cover it and dig into the people involved... unless you were one of the local cabal of yellow dog cronies that ran the county. Somehow the county commissioners and county judge who were buddies with them never seemed to get their names in the paper. Bob Barton was at one time a legislator and ran campaigns for several folks around the county. Being in the news business didn't seem to slow him down. I watched his paper write some ugly things about friends of mine.

He died in 2012, and his widow and family took over. One of his epitaphs made no apologies about how sought "social justice" and didn't focus on facts.

About 10 years ago, my mother let her subscription lapse and didn't renew. She said she didn't feel like paying a couple of dollars a week to glance and something for three minutes.

I don't miss my hometown newspaper.

Bridge City has a free newspaper delivered weekly. I couldn't stand the commie editorial page so I got them to stop delivering to me. There's no sense trashing up the driveway with a wet paper that I don't read.