Deep Impact

It really is a pity. Some of these local newspapers are quite good - a favorite of mine was the Barrie Examiner. They are often too unsophisticated to be politically correct, and a surprising amount of information comes from them.

I'm from K-W originally and although I agree with you, the Waterloo Region Record (Waterloo has been steadily taking over Kitchener's civic institutions and running them better) is surprisingly good.

Lefties follow the money. Any business, non-profit or government will grow over time as the originally noble and hard-working people who set these institutions up are swallowed under a barnacle of left, soft-thinking, politically correct activists. Newspapers are no different. If there is money to be made, the number of lefties on staff will continue to grow in size and then overwhelm the original mandate with their politically correct crap.

Do you really think Alfred Nobel would have given anything but a swift kick in the ass to Al Gore or Obama?

Same thing with newspapers and MSM. Too bad.

This has got to be my hometown Lindsay This Week. Largely only adverts and such at this point. Shame to see the local paper for sale and at such a cheap price, too.

A propos of nothing, The Toronto Star online went behind a paywall this week. Sounds good to me - the less people that see that trash the better.

A newspaper advertised for sale on Kijiji.....

I love where it says "if interested please contact" ... I think he knows that everyone knows that print publication will continue to shrink and disappear as the last hold outs earn to use a mouse.

Interesting that most newspaper workers are the big lefties who oppose everything an hate enterprise .... Their brethren in the Eco freak business should be joyful that the tree killing is stopping along with the jobs that newspapers workers enjoyed so much.

Not to worry TorStar will buy it cheap as they have with most small local papers so they can propagandize the locals in lib-left globalism.

...at the same time tangible and free of 'bricks and mortar'...

But where do they keep their printing presses?

What exactly are they trying to sell for $69K?

The future has already been written by its lack of subscribers.
You know it could be turned by having feature writers like Steyn & others of a Conservative bent.

With a Caption that reads :"No tolerance or inclusiveness zone. Nothing but real news for real people". Than make it mostly a Hot Air like blog.

I wonder why that ad wasn't in the newspaper he owns...

Because he wanted people to see it, rat. My cousin recently paid to list a Harley in his hometown paper and the local Thrifty Nickel. The ads ran for a couple weeks. Having no success, he listed the bike on Craig's List for free and got calls and texts and sold the bike right away.

it does have value. but all the value is potential. local news has always been a small business.

the value lies in advertising/relevance (not print rates - forget the printing press) - and if a skilled individual were competent enough and willing enough to work long hours to "make a living" in the digital milieu - an offer could be made on the basis of a small percentage of net profits over 10-12 years. i would think that a down payment of 2k or 3k would be appropriate if a registered domain name (since 2002) is in the deal. :)

the business has very little value on thursday august 15 2013 and whatever value that can be demonstrated is in decline; and i would underline the following: "past performance is no indication of future results."

BUT --- if life in a small town appeals - it is a golden opportunity for an entrepreneur. peterborough has a population of 80,000 and that means that lots of stuff is going on.

This one heck of a sales job, Jeeze, I hope to learn to write that well. "its future will be written by you" ha ha ha ha ha, that's a good one.