Comments on: Save Your Favorite Small Mag: Tell Congress to Roll Back the Postage Hike http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/ Firedoglake weblog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:22:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: zippy http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064768 zippy Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:36:21 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064768 <p><a href="#comment-1064616"><em>RAM @ 75</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Those of us in the weekly newspaper business have taken a big hit, too. As rates have gone up, service has gone down.</p> <p>I had to send some stuff to another publisher last week and he directed it be sent any other than the U.S. Snail because their office was having so much trouble getting mail delivered.</p> <p>Way back when, weeklies were delivered free in-county because it was felt important that folks got local news and public notices. Not any more. In fact, God only knows how much we’ll have to pay to mail out the edition with tax assessment changes in it.</p> <p>What a mess…</p></blockquote> <p> Any thoughts on how the internet has changed the way people get their news? Newspapers are a dying business and magazines arn’t far behind.</p> RAM @ 75

Those of us in the weekly newspaper business have taken a big hit, too. As rates have gone up, service has gone down.

I had to send some stuff to another publisher last week and he directed it be sent any other than the U.S. Snail because their office was having so much trouble getting mail delivered.

Way back when, weeklies were delivered free in-county because it was felt important that folks got local news and public notices. Not any more. In fact, God only knows how much we’ll have to pay to mail out the edition with tax assessment changes in it.

What a mess…

Any thoughts on how the internet has changed the way people get their news? Newspapers are a dying business and magazines arn’t far behind.

]]> By: SuburbanGirl http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064757 SuburbanGirl Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:28:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064757 <p>So this will affect all small mags? How bout ones less overtly political like Mothering Magazine or Adoptive Families? Will subscribing to digital versions help?</p> <p>I hate these frickin’ corporatists and their govt tools.</p> So this will affect all small mags? How bout ones less overtly political like Mothering Magazine or Adoptive Families? Will subscribing to digital versions help?

I hate these frickin’ corporatists and their govt tools.

]]> By: Fred X. Quinby http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064705 Fred X. Quinby Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:01:06 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064705 <p>No I haven’t heard about the corporate-mag-inspired postal rate hike that went into effect earlier this year. How does this rate hike benefit the big corporate mag publishers and drive everyone else out of business?</p> No I haven’t heard about the corporate-mag-inspired postal rate hike that went into effect earlier this year. How does this rate hike benefit the big corporate mag publishers and drive everyone else out of business?

]]> By: J http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064699 J Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:56:55 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064699 <p>AS usual Lou Dobbs pounding the immigration issue but then he does a hard right turn on Iran. He had Professor Fouad Ajami on to discuss Iran. Ajami is a pure war hawk at heart. Dobbs showed the clip of El Bardei on Cnn’s late edition last night talking about the “inflammatory rhetoric” in regard to Iran being repeated. After the clip Ajami referred to Iaea’s El Baradei as a “congenital anti-American man”.</p> <p>Dobbs actually challenged him on his slander of El Baradei and said “El Baradei was right about Iraq”</p> AS usual Lou Dobbs pounding the immigration issue but then he does a hard right turn on Iran. He had Professor Fouad Ajami on to discuss Iran. Ajami is a pure war hawk at heart. Dobbs showed the clip of El Bardei on Cnn’s late edition last night talking about the “inflammatory rhetoric” in regard to Iran being repeated. After the clip Ajami referred to Iaea’s El Baradei as a “congenital anti-American man”.

Dobbs actually challenged him on his slander of El Baradei and said “El Baradei was right about Iraq”

]]> By: pdaly http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064672 pdaly Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:46:24 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064672 <p>or was it ‘Poland Springs’ water ads?</p> or was it ‘Poland Springs’ water ads?

]]> By: pdaly http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064665 pdaly Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:42:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064665 <p>Last spring I had an eye-opener in the US Post Office when I tried, unsuccessfully for several minutes, to locate the ‘change of address cards’ that the postal clerk insisted were on the counter. </p> <p>It turned out the change of address ‘kits’ were camouflaged in envelopes covered in colorful ads by Home Depot, Belmont Springs water and … national magazines. I thought the enveolopes were junk mail taking up space on the counter and so I was actively ignoring them while searching for a government form. </p> <p>The cozy relationship of the U.S. Post Office to corporations was disturbing then, but I just assumed the Post Office was hurting for money after Bush raided the mailcarriers’ pensions to pay for his war in Iraq.</p> Last spring I had an eye-opener in the US Post Office when I tried, unsuccessfully for several minutes, to locate the ‘change of address cards’ that the postal clerk insisted were on the counter.

It turned out the change of address ‘kits’ were camouflaged in envelopes covered in colorful ads by Home Depot, Belmont Springs water and … national magazines. I thought the enveolopes were junk mail taking up space on the counter and so I was actively ignoring them while searching for a government form.

The cozy relationship of the U.S. Post Office to corporations was disturbing then, but I just assumed the Post Office was hurting for money after Bush raided the mailcarriers’ pensions to pay for his war in Iraq.

]]> By: LS http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064645 LS Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:37:03 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064645 <p><a href="#comment-1064618"><em>eCAHNomics @ 77</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>LS @ 65<br /> Guess there was no new news. Your article seems to have been a reprint from 01. So I am still wondering.</p></blockquote> <p>The news is that it “is” from 01, and no one has ever supposedly claimed the money…Krongard’s been around all this time…</p> eCAHNomics @ 77

LS @ 65
Guess there was no new news. Your article seems to have been a reprint from 01. So I am still wondering.

The news is that it “is” from 01, and no one has ever supposedly claimed the money…Krongard’s been around all this time…

]]> By: punaise http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064640 punaise Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:33:26 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064640 <p><a href="#comment-1064635"><em>Valley Girl @ 88</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>OT but…</p> <p>Punaise, did you see Siun’s thread last eve? About Rumsfeld and the French?</p> <p>I mentioned your name.</p></blockquote> <p>missed that, will go back and check it out. thanks.</p> Valley Girl @ 88

OT but…

Punaise, did you see Siun’s thread last eve? About Rumsfeld and the French?

I mentioned your name.

missed that, will go back and check it out. thanks.

]]> By: Steve-AR http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064637 Steve-AR Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:32:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064637 <p><a href="#comment-1064594"><em>Oklahoma kiddo @ 58</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>I find my self in a terrible situation. I don’t like Hillary or Obama.</p></blockquote> <p>After you said you supported her, I started taking a hard look at her record. *g*</p> Oklahoma kiddo @ 58

I find my self in a terrible situation. I don’t like Hillary or Obama.

After you said you supported her, I started taking a hard look at her record. *g*

]]> By: Valley Girl http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064635 Valley Girl Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:32:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/29/save-your-favorite-small-mag-tell-congress-to-roll-back-the-postage-hike/#comment-1064635 <p>OT but…</p> <p>Punaise, did you see Siun’s thread last eve? About Rumsfeld and the French?</p> <p>I mentioned your name.</p> OT but…

Punaise, did you see Siun’s thread last eve? About Rumsfeld and the French?

I mentioned your name.

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