A California Newspaper Prints Its Last Edition

The #Palisadian-Post was published for 97 years, but the semi-monthly #community #newspaper couldn’t survive the Los Angeles wildfires.

Alan Smolinisky, the #Pali-Post owner, said that the #Palisades became a “ghost town” after last year's #fire, bringing #readership effectively down to zero.

“We lost the one thing we can’t do without — our readers,” Smolinisky wrote. “You can’t print a newspaper nobody reads.”

🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/california-wildfires-palisadian-post-newspaper.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k8.l2Gj.jEKEW7L8N8v0&smid=url-share

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➡️ https://tally.so/r/44ag8b

If you read my blog https://burgeonlab.com and have a minute or two, I’d really appreciate it if you could fill it out! Thank you. 🥰

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https://vietnamnet.vn/cau-be-dan-toc-mong-o-lao-cai-bi-tai-nan-duoc-ban-doc-giup-do-hon-79-trieu-dong-2458248.html

Back when #Billionaire #Bezos bought the #WaPo , the DC newspaper claiming to shed light on daily doings in the nation's capital , that paper was selling a quarter million copies a day,... Now after Bezos has neutered the news by publicly putting his #editorial thumb on the product, and placing an ex-#Murdoch minion from UK in charge, daily #circulation has officially fallen below 100,000 copies ...

The #readership and resulting staffing drop is so serious, that it was recently revealed new #editor is now going to shrink all the once thick individual sections of local Metro reporting, Style and Sports into one plain print section, along with a separate front "#NationalNews" section.

The #newspaper refuses to officially release its digital #subscription numbers, but insider sources say those faced severe drops too, with over 200,000 cancellations of subscriptions made in wake of Bezos announcing his editorial edicts of 2024 election.#BlueOrigin space king ordered an editorial focus away from #politics, cutting out #endorsements of political candidates, and to only publish opinions purely focused on supporting “free markets and personal liberties”.

https://dankennedy.net/2025/06/24/yes-the-washington-post-is-in-crisis-but-its-declining-print-circulation-numbers-are-meaningless/

A quotation from Orwell

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1939), “Charles Dickens,” sec. 6, Inside the Whale (1940-03-11)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/74616/

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