If you thought it couldn’t get any more insane at the Portland Press Herald, consider this: the publisher canceled the e-editions due to an impending snowstorm.
Quick question – since when did snowy roads prevent the internet from being in business?
Quick answer – they didn’t.
But that didn’t stop the publisher from putting out this message over the weekend to however few subscribers are still left:
“Hello reader,
Due to the expected winter storm this weekend, the Saturday edition and Maine Sunday Telegram will be combined and delivered on Saturday.
“There will be no print or ePaper editions on Sunday, as we will publish weekend editions on Saturday only.”
It’s like every week they offer another reason to cancel your paper.
Cutting sections, firing freelance columnists, and now storms scare them so much they can’t publish e-editions.
Or maybe it’s not really about snowstorms – maybe just another reason to cut costs?
How long can they survive with this strategy?
“The paper has become a shell of its former self,” one reader posted in the comment section of the storm story. “I see the end of my subscription in sight.”
“I can remember when I used to buy the paper and there were new and interesting stories every day, but not anymore,” another subscriber said.
Meanwhile, notice how the publisher made sure readers know that a storm in the middle of February comes in winter aka “winter storm.”
When it rains in the middle of July will the publisher tell you that she is expecting a “summer storm?”
Asking for a friend.
The only question remaining – if there is only one – is will subscribers revolt? Are they demanding refunds?
Editor’s note: Ted Cohen is a former long-time staffer for the Portland Press Herald.
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If the PPH is like the BDN 100% of its staff works from home – or various asylums and halfway houses. A little snow shouldn’t impact their “work”. Just the same it’s wonderful to see these corrupt propaganda organs all walking toward the light.
That is just funny… 🙂
The new breed of Mainers aint’ so tough.
So happy we pulled the plug on the Pravda Press and switched to the Epoch Times. We feel smarter and happier.
Matt Schobolm’s AFL_CIO propaganda staff must have been on a tax payer funded sabbatical so there was nothing to load into the e edition…..
It used to be that readers could comment on their articles if they didn’t have a subscription. Now, that isn’t allowed so it’s just one big echo chamber of Lefties commenting on Leftist ideology. If the PPH disappeared tomorrow, most critical thinking people wouldn’t notice.
Last gasp ridiculousness. Weatherfear. Flakey wordsmiths.
I canceled the PPH Sunday paper years ago because I was tired of the constant left biased reporting.All of their national feeds are biased as well as their local staff reporters. I’m thankful for the Maine Wire for real news.
The PPH did print new opinions online Sunday though for the liberals to rant to while they cursed a heavy sleet storm as the latest outcome of climate crisis.