More Banner: what's your definition of "out of business"?

re: More Banner: what's your definition of "out of business"?

Corey Smith — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:15:16 GMT

Sorry to see the Banner to go in these difficult times. I hope they will resume publishing the newspaper soon.

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re: More Banner: what's your definition of "out of business"?

John Gatti Jr — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:39:00 GMT

The daily carnage report of our traditional newspapers continues.

Will the last newspaper, publisher,editor, reporter, advertiser sales person, press person, delivery driver, and carrier leaving the room turn off the lights and close the door.

The challenge and assault to our press freedoms continues. Will someone somewhere wake up before they become extinct?

re: More Banner: what's your definition of "out of business"?

Sandra Casagrand — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:52:17 GMT

When you don't have the option of losing $10 million a month and continue printing like other papers (globe) because there is no big company backing you - then when the revenue dries up - you have no other option but to close the doors while you are working on other funding. We recently received a grant from the Boston Foundation, as well as other funding for other projects, but not enough to continue printing a paper on a weekly basis for now. Unlike daily papers, running online only is not a viable option for us. Whether that other funding and ad revenue that we've been working on ever gets realized is an unknown so we have no other option but to tell advertisers that we have closed our doors for now. That's the downside of being a small independent paper.

re: More Banner: what's your definition of "out of business"?

aging cynic — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:31:53 GMT

OT: How sad that with all he did, (and could have done but didn't), Clinton is immortalized to many by his disingenuous attacks on the English language. Perfect description, though.