Wednesday, November 1, 2023

The Downward Spiral Continues

 Kiss home delivery of the Clarion-Ledger goodbye - well, sort of kiss it goodbye. The "state newspaper" will still deliver print editions to your home but through the postal service.  Yup.  No more waking up in the morning to read it with the morning copy.  No more stealing your neighbor's copy because you're a cheapskate.  Clarion-Ledger Executive Editor Mark Konradi announced today: 

Most American publications, including the Clarion Ledger, have evolved to reach readers in different ways — from websites to apps to a variety of social media platforms.

Now, we find ourselves at another evolution point in connecting with some readers. Starting Monday, Dec. 4, we are changing how we distribute the newspaper. We are partnering with the U.S. Postal Service for the delivery of the Clarion Ledger. Each issue will be delivered by the postal service....

Unfortunately, the current environment produces ongoing challenges with our newspaper delivery. Despite our best efforts, we don’t see the situation improving.

For some people, you will not notice a difference in timing for the weekday editions. You will get your weekday papers on the same days you do now. With this delivery change, the Sunday edition will be delivered to most homes on Saturdays as the U.S. Postal Service does not deliver on Sundays. Advertising inserts currently delivered on Sundays will be included and delivered to subscribers on Saturdays.

For some readers, this will affect your morning routine, since the newspaper will come later, and we appreciate your understanding and adapting to the change. We have many ways to connect with you. If you enjoy reading in a newspaper format, the eNewspaper is available on your computer or mobile device early every morning. That electronic replica of the printed newspaper is full of bonus content not available in the printed product. It is available at clarionledger.com/enewspaper.

And the downward spiral continues.   


60 comments:

JerryClowersGhost said...

Ohhh man....just go ahead and as Jerry Clower used to say, "SHOOT THIS THANG!!! ONE OF US HAS GOTS TO HAVE SUM RELIEF!!!"

Go ahead a put a bullet in it... it's DONE!

Anonymous said...

My mother, God rest her soul, would be devastated! Her life revolved around her morning paper at 5 AM, working the crossword puzzle and crytoquip. It has been reduced to merely nothing now. We have not subscribed to it in years. In the 70s we received both Jackson Daily News and Clarion Ledger and enjoyed it. This will be a big change for people in their 80s and 90s who still "take" the paper. I'm thinking one day, it will not exist.

Anonymous said...

My mother, God rest her soul, would be devasted. Her life revolved around her paper at 5 AM. Drinking coffee, she worked the crossword puzzle and Cryptoquip. In the 70s we received both Jackson Daily News and Clarion Ledger. Today, it has be reduced to merely nothing. People in the 80s and 90s like my mom who begin their day with the paper are going to be upset.

Anonymous said...

Really, Kingfish? Our grandparents, our parents and many of US grew up with the Jackson Daily News and the Clarion Ledger. Both died at least 25 years ago.

Like twenty-cent picture-shows with nickel popcorn, car-hops and chicken-fried-steak at restaurants on Capital Street, that rag is nothing but a pleasant memory. We stopped grieving over this funeral years ago.

Next?

Anonymous said...

There’s a local newspaper?

Anonymous said...

Shoots the hell out of my aspiration to have run a paper route at 13 and 73 yoa.

Anonymous said...

I'm enjoying this end of life experience happening at the CL.

It has been nothing but an inflammatory mouth of the left forever. Hopefully, it will take the suicide pill its readers are providing.

Anonymous said...

Go woke, go broke.

Bill Dees said...

Good grief! Anyone with 2 brain cells (which eliminates 99% of KF's readers) knows that you can read the paper on line starting at 4 AM.

Anonymous said...

So have they developed a Time Machine to be able to deliver the Sunday news on Saturday? PS. The postal service is next, 95% of what they deliver gets picked up by the garbage man the next day. Let’s eliminate that wasteful loop as well.

anonymous said...

Ah, Bill Dees, it is not the news or contents of the paper that matters the most. It is the experience of coffee, a collection of paper, the sorting of sections, the freshness, the pen in hand, and the routine that collectively signals a good day is ahead that matters and cannot be replaced with laptop.
News was an added benefit. Being able to read what is yet to be aired on TV enhanced the experience and abled us to discuss current events in a collegial manner.
RMQ

Anonymous said...

So you'll have to wait another 6 hours to read yesterday's news.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, they've evolved, all right, like the brontosaurus: big, slow, dumb, and with a really small head. If the paper had come printed any more narrow, they could've sold it on a roll around a cardboard tube, so apropos. We'll miss it like we miss buggy whips, flint hand tools, and clap doctors.

Anonymous said...

Good riddance. I'll miss the fuel for my charcoal starter can though.

Anonymous said...

Number one on the list of things you thought you would never see; Bill Dees denigrating someone else's intellectual ability. When you stop laughing, mark that one completed.

Anonymous said...

I remember reading in the Clarion-Error that the state flag belongs in a museum. It won’t be long now there’s going to be a copy of the front page on exhibit in the very next display case.

Anonymous said...

Well that what you get when you sell out to Gannett, Maybe the guy who owns the papers in South Louiana can start a Missippi edition.

Robert W Neill Jr, Land Broker said...

I might try that if I can get a same day paper. The Clarion-Ledger stopped home delivery in my neighborhood years ago. They have a newspaper rack a block away that never worksl

Anonymous said...

How will I find out who got shot and where in Jackson without a newspaper?

Anonymous said...

That's what they deserve by dishing up major left wing bullsh!+!

Anonymous said...

Shut the doors!

Anonymous said...

What am I supposed to line my bird cage with now?

Anonymous said...

The place stopped attempting any meaningful local news and sports coverage years ago. Why do I need a local paper that republishes day old news I’ve ready electronically?

Call me a dinosaur, but I think a market still exits for decent local news coverage that runs alternating op-Ed’s - without attempting to influence the consumer’s opinion.

Until then, we have the KF. Regardless of what folks say about you, your provide one helluva local forum. Much appreciated.

Sheila Jones said...

I love reading the newspaper. I guess it goes back to my childhood when Dad would read the funniest to me every morning. I guess the younger generations can’t I’d what they need on the internet! Good by to the old!

Anonymous said...

Thank for the tip! My2 brain cells are asleep until 630 am or so! I’ll look online! Don’t hide anymore of your secrets! You’re friend with brain cells that need a little more rest. Almost retired!

lsb said...

There is not a carrier-delivered newspaper remaining in Mississippi. They are all in the mail.

Anonymous said...

When gannet canceled Dilbert, I cancelled the CL. Used to be a fair paper. The online edition was horrible.

Anonymous said...

Sunday's news on Saturday? No problem when its all written by fiction writers.

Anonymous said...

I can agree with @8:40 P. While JJ and KF are sometimes irritating and annoying, what KF does with JJ is more like what news is supposed to be. Used to be that WAPT, WLBT, WAPT, WDAM in Hattiesburg, and, I believe, even the Clarion-Ledger provided a place to comment on articles as we do here. As they say out in the country, though, "Not no more"; the internet was too Wild West for the elite class and their mainstream media, and they shut down comment sections that sometimes (perhaps often) had more news and more accuracy than the "journalists" at their "news outlets."

In a twist on an old joke about musicians, what do you do when a journalist shows up at your door? Why, pay for the pizza.

Is that mean? Maybe. Is it deserved? Most definitely. Good night, legacy journalists, and good luck.

Anonymous said...

Alas, poor Clarion-Ledger! I knew it, Horatio; a paper of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; it hath borne me on its back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those words that I have read I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the reader on a roar?

Those of you who don't have two brain cells to rub together and don't know to whom I should make apologies, ask Dees.

shadyal said...

What’s a paper route, the kids will say. Folding newspapers for delivery and having over 100 impressions of Jayne Mansfield’s wrecked car was one paperboy experience of mine.

Anonymous said...

Had no idea it was still being printed. I thought most newspapers of similar size were online only?

Anonymous said...

@5:35, yes a small pamphlet with daily recycled civil rights stories. It hasn’t been a newspaper in years.

Anonymous said...

Eh, so what? All actual, factual information can be had in real time on FaceTokGram anyway. My cousin's hairdresser's brother's girlfriend's bartender's plumber's friend's dad who has worked as a used car salesman for !!!!20 YEARS!!!! knows more about everything than anyone else, so why would any rational person not believe every word he says? Only idiots would not trust him.

Oh, and, PS - we're fucked.

Anonymous said...

The city will soon follow....mail-order only.

Anonymous said...

Not unless you pay for it, Bill Dees. And what fool does?

Anonymous said...

Between the Northside Sun and the TV Stations and this blog, there’s no need for the Gannett news in Jackson.

Anonymous said...

I'm sure it's tough to find reliable people who'll deliver the newspaper to your home everyday. I was a print subscriber until home delivery went from good to unreliable to almost nonexistent. Now I get the e-edition. I won't switch back to a printed edition arriving by mail - a morning newspaper that arrives in the afternoon isn't a morning paper.

Anonymous said...

I hate to break this to you, Bill. You’re no one percenter. HTH

Anonymous said...

Was in that huge CL building downtown a couple of years ago. Former newsrooms were virtually empty. Just a few reporters in one corner. Is the paper put together now at the Hattiesburg American as I have heard?

Anonymous said...

Schadenfreude. And that's not a bad thing.

Anonymous said...

@6:26 IKR?! I have oft considered that trees are being cut in the rainforest, hauled thousands of miles, turned into paper, hauled again, turned into junk mail/sale papers, distributed, and disposed of by people like us that never even consider looking at those printed words. Then they are collected, trans ported, and made part of a big hill in Madison County (i.e., Little Dixie landfill). Think of all the jobs, tools, vehicles, fuel, etc., that are involved in this vestigial appendage of a process. This doesn't even consider the loss to the world of the rainforest. It boggles the mind.

Anonymous said...

The only paper I have delivered is the Wall Street Journal. I pretty much read it online only, except when I am traveling and cannot get good internet service. The delivery is sometimes DAYS or WEEKS late because of the horrible postal service. Sorry CL, but ain't subscribing to your paper for it to be DAYS and sometimes WEEKS late because of our Postal Service.

Anonymous said...

Hoping the Tupelo paper will fold soon as well. If anybody needs to be put out to pasture and required to get a real job, it's Sam Hall.

He's praying for Brandon Presley to be elected governor, knowing that Presley would need a permanent water-boy. Prayers are often wasted.

Kingfish said...

I gave up the WSJ print edition nearly a year ago. Gannett took over delivery several years ago and it consistently sucked. Last straw was when I went a month without delivery. Doesn't do any good to complain to WSJ because all it can do is refer complaint to the Gannett black hole. Finally said screw it and I liked getting that particular newspaper in hardcopy. Was a real newspaper.

Now the WSJ has gone and broken the app but the website works pretty well.

Anonymous said...

Is it ok to express a little shadenfreude?

For JPS alumni, or as Rush used to say, "Rio Linda," that means "pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others."

Anonymous said...



I think it is a blessing-

Anonymous said...

Damn, it was my emergency backup when for when there is a TP shortage.

Anonymous said...

November 1, 2023 at 7:08 PM You nailed it on the head for me. I still subscribe and get home delivery. Yea, the articles are slanted big time and Gannett sucks. But sippin the coffee, flippin thru the paper, doing the crossword, reading the funnies, checking the obits. I like having a paper in hand. Wont go to the website. Most are only ads and clickbate. Kingfish is the one exception. Check it every day.

One poster said it well----would like a newspaper that had honest op eds, many sections, etc. There's a paper that's delivered in Flowood thats pretty good. I'll subscribe to it.

Anonymous said...

What happened to the obits at the CL? A lot fewer in the last 6 months.

Anonymous said...

Soon the CL building downtown will be another vacant eyesore in Jackson.

Anonymous said...

Get wokie, go brokie
Just ask Disney, Anheuser-Busch, and most of the video games industry except Nintendo.

Anonymous said...

When Sam Hall refused to allow a Letter to the Editor that conflicted with negative articles in the CL about public officials or companies , newspaper ethics went out the window. Old school newspapers encouraged debate that’s why I still get the WSJ.

Anonymous said...

@11:50 am, it may have something to do with economics.

I inquired last year about placing an obit in the CL and they told me from $900 up.

I complained about it to an acquaintance who told me she had paid over $1300 -- thirteen hundred dollars, I say -- to run one in the CL of her father.

Anonymous said...

@3:43, That is outrageous! No wonder fewer people are posting obituaries. I can’t imagine what a small ad would cost.

Anonymous said...

Thank God. I cancelled my subscription 7 FUCKING YEARS AGO and yet it still shows up every day so that I can make a special trip to the end of the driveway just to put it in the trashcan. Biggest shit for brains publication I've ever seen.

Anonymous said...

The profit margin might be negative, but they are planning to make it up on huge volume!

Anonymous said...

What is interesting is that even the print edition that was home delivered contained "news" that was two and often three days old. I don't see how anybody could enjoy the morning paper dropped off by the letter carrier after lunch. This stunt will not last long as folks just don't want that service.

The imminent death of the CL was caused in part by the daily poicitally motivated front page items. They are not news. The items are quite obviously placed on the front page by "influencers" at Gannett. For contrasst, find a 1985 edition fo the CL. You will see actual news stories that things happening locally. You cannot find that now. The CL is simply not worth reading anymore.






Anonymous said...

The obituary prices are outrageous. In certain legal matters, you must publish one. I've had to place obituaries in the Madison paper, the Rankin paper, a home town paper (for my mom) and the Clarion Ledger. The home town paper was $300, the madison (non gannet) paper was reasonable and the Rankin (non gannet) paper was reasonable. The Clarion Ledger was several hundred dollars for just 1 day. And you'll need to float a loan to get Fri, Sat, and Sun.

Anonymous said...

Internet and N advertising $$$$$ killed the paper. we are dying breed that like to sit and read our paper. Sad day but coming for a long time


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