Who here is a Bee subscriber?

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D-Rock

G-League
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#1
I like reading the paper. I like having the pages in my hand, instead of looking at it on the screen, but Sacramento Bee is really making it hard for me to keep up my subscription.

When they changed their format, it really annoyed my because the font and layout they chose sucked, but they kept a full-on A page, while cutting people who covered local news. Look, I read all that crap online before you print it. Focus on stuff I am not going to see online 1-2 days before you print it.

Why does Bill Bradley have a job? Everything he prints is a complete joke that a 3rd grader could write in his sleep. Why does Ailene have a job? Everything she prints is crap. She's bringing sexy back, baby!

I swear to god, if they fire Sam Amick I will cancel my subscription. It pisses me off that the two people I mentioned have jobs, while Scott Howard-Cooper got canned. ****, I never much liked Marty Mac, but I'd keep him over Voison or Bradley.
 
6th

6th

Homer Fan Since 1985
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I understand your frustration, so much so that I have already cancelled mine. To heck with them. They are idiots. So much for Goodwill, huh? :p
 
PurpleHaze

PurpleHaze

All-Star
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#3
On my street there's 16 homes (8 on each side). 20 years ago there were at least 12-14 of them that rec'd Bee home delivery. By the late 90's it was down to around 7-8. Now it's only 2. I'm occasionally up very early to see the paper boy - so that's how I've leisurely tracked it.

I was a loyal Bee subscriber for at least 20 years but got rid of home delivery about 6 years ago. I occasionally pick up a Sunday Bee but the last time was months ago. I'm in Sac but I hear complaints by lots of outlying folks, in Solano, Yolo, Placer, Yuba, etc. who say the Bee long ago covered their areas rather well, but now barely a peep. Also, they no longer receive the advertising flyers as before and that's one more thing that annoys them.

I give Bee a couple more years before it folds due to really poor performance, bad management, and simply not understanding the GREAT, OVERWHELMING need for tons of local area news coverage.
 
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D-Rock

G-League
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PurpleHaze said:
I give Bee a couple more years before it folds due to really poor performance, bad management, and simply not understanding the GREAT, OVERWHELMING need for tons of local area news coverage.
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Man, if I ran the SNR, I would be licking my chops right now. I'd also steal Amick from the Bee.
 
Warhawk

Warhawk

Give blood and save a life!
Staff member
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#6
D-Rock said:
Man, if I ran the SNR, I would be licking my chops right now. I'd also steal Amick from the Bee.
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If they stole Amick that would improve the Bee.

I still subscibe, but like others have found coverage lacking. Still, it is the only real local paper and I enjoy getting one.
 
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JB_kings

Starter
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Cancelled about 5 years ago and never missed it once. Now that the talented writers can't be afforded anymore, it's only use now is for the ad inserts.
 
Kingster

Kingster

Hall of Famer
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#9
I cancelled the Bee a couple of years ago. Their in-your-face liberal bias made me puke. Also, the quality of journalism is very poor. I got the Wall St. Journal instead, and love it. We really need a much better local newspaper, if only for the local and state news.

Given the technology of today, I don't know why the WSJ doesn't have a small local section for the major cities, Sacto included. They could cherry pick Dan Walters from the Bee and hire a couple of others and have a small, but good local section in their newspaper for Sacto. Then they could hire someone almost for free (like from this forum) to report on the Kings. That would finish the Bee.
 
Emma

Emma

Starter
#10
#10
The internet tolls the death of the newspaper. TV killed radio shows (I mean story based ones), and here we are on the internet getting our news for free without using up a bunch of paper. Oh well.

Rotary Phones
8 tracks
Cassette tapes
Black and White TV
VHS
And now: Newspapers

Wasn't there a list of these dead things floating around the forum a year or so ago?
 
Ryle

Ryle

Starter
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#11
I still get it every day and have for the past 16 years. I guess it's my ritual that I get up early and get the paper and read it while I have my coffee before anyone gets up. Even if we are gone a couple of days I still at least peruse the past couple of days sports sections.
 
kennadog

kennadog

Dog On It!
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#12
I've subscribed for a long, long time. They are, however, pushing me toward cancellation. There just isn't much to it any more. Free news on the internet? That will be gone someday. But I'd rather sit back and do the NY Times crossword with paper and pencil.

When more and more newspapers die off, they'll start charging you online. At least they will for any decent reporting. There is so much garbage online. People writing stuff that have no acquaintance with journaslistic ethics or decent writing, even.
 
StevenHW

StevenHW

Starter
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Kingster said:
I cancelled the Bee a couple of years ago. Their in-your-face liberal bias made me puke. Also, the quality of journalism is very poor. I got the Wall St. Journal instead, and love it. We really need a much better local newspaper, if only for the local and state news...
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Forget it. The only other competitor the SacBee has is the weekly Sacramento News & Review. And if you think the Bee is liberally biased, then the SNR is even more so.

A local conservative paper (on print) has no chance in this town these days. The Sacramento Union came back as a weekly in 2006, and they just folded again three months ago. The SacUnion actually had some decent sports coverage, even though they had far less pages and only a handful of writers. The rest were press releases.
 
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