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Good for them. Gannett has trashed the paper, and higher ups get defensive when you tell them $26 per month is fricking ridiculous money for that rag. After almost a year of not getting delivery, I caved in but told them point blank, if I am to pay the $23 per month (rate at the time) I insist that I have the paper placed EVERY day in the slot in my mail box designed for a newspaper, not thrown wherever they feel like and ZERO TOLERANCE for error. It took them four days to screw up. I haven't received the paper since then. Good for the employees. GANNETT SUCKS.
 
If they're serious, quit and start their own paper. Seriously, I'd subscribe to a REAL newspaper, not just some regional USA today with a couple Indiana stories sprinked in. The operating costs and barriers to entry for a newspaper today isn't high since we've moved into a digital age. Industrial space is plentiful, computers are insanely cheap and I bet if several of the big name writers made it known they were wanting to go out and start a new paper, they could find some wealthy Indy folks to back them. It's easy to write this Declaration. Now live it.

I subscribe to the WSJ but not the Indy Star. I'd pay $20/month for a true Indiana paper.
 
They could start an online newspaper perhaps, but a print product would be too expensive, not just to buy or rent a printing press, but the newsprint itself is outrageously expensive. More online news outlets are popping up, but from what I've seen it's not easy to draw regular readers to them. At this point, most newspapers, including the Star, are already a shell of their former selves and provide very little real value. The newspaper industry is effectively dead in this country.
 
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