Stories printed in News-Journal are out of date
The News-Journal’s top page 1 headline on Oct. 26 reads, “Johnson is latest speaker hopeful,” an out-of-date story that was received by local subscribers 12 hours after Louisiana’s Mike Johnson had been wisely praised for his conciliatory remarks after Republicans finally united to vote unanimously to elect him Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Even the national edition of the New York Times, with its tight deadlines, was able to timely report the latest twist in this ongoing story.
Three of your paper’s four-page 1 stories are reprints of stories previously published in the USA Today Network and only one is written by a local reporter. The lead page on each of the paper’s four sections is for some reason always printed with a distracting one-inch margin overhanging the section’s other pages.
The Community Extra section in your Sunday paper includes a box detailing how to submit letters to the editor, yet no letters are ever published and the paper does not employ an Opinion Page editor to handle letters. The opinion articles appearing in this section are mostly reprints of articles previously published in the USA Today Network.
There is no print newspaper published for home subscribers on Saturdays and holidays, only digital. Print subscribers are charged extra for occasional special sections created by the USA Today Network, whether they want them or not. Your business model appears to be profiteering from local readers by overloading them with canned content from the USA Today Network.
Is it any surprise then that the paper is losing print subscribers in droves despite being desperately offered rock-bottom rates when they call your circulation representatives based in Colombia and the Philippines to cancel?
You are welcome to publish this letter to begin an exchange of published views from local readers on how the News-Journal is serving its community. Or not.
Dennis L. Breo
New Smyrna Beach
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Stories printed in News-Journal out of date
