It is kind of hilarious how the Strib just can’t get past the themes it has been assigned to write on by the whacked Dem party. On today’s front page we have not one, but two stories about how attempting to rein in the excessive government spending that has led to massive deficits and nation-threatening debt is ruining people’s lives. Sometimes I wonder if the editors even read these stories to see how idiotic they are. The top one is about “drug safety” sites at risk. These are literally places the state created so drug addicts can go shoot up. In other words the state is facilitating drug addiction and all the horrors that come with it, instead of trying to stop people from destroying their lives. Hopefully they are successfully shut down.
The other story is about how senior meals may be cut. These all appear to be meals for people who are perfectly capable of providing their own food. What neither of the stories disclose is that all this taxpayer money goes to organizations which pay executives excessively and recycle some of the funding as Dem party contributions. And I am waiting for the Strib story that explains how our huge deficit and debt hurt every single American.
Let’s see what else can we do to hurt Trump–oh, yeah, ressurect a completely fake story about Pete Hegseth releasing classified data. Tariffs bad, blah, blah, blah.
I know the Star Tribune is a private corporation (owned by Glen Taylor I believe?) and their financials aren’t public, but are they making any money? I know they still have their dedicated readers (almost exclusively Baby Boomers and older Gen X and in the metro area), but it has to have dropped dramatically over the last 25 years like all newspapers. Sure, I’m sure they have a decent contingent of online subscribers, but it has to be decreasing at least slowly as those generations die off. It could be the social circles I run in, but I know of no close friends or relatives who subscribe. And while they can run articles from the AP and other sources, there are only so many costs that can be cut and still have a product that people will pay for.
Just out of curiosity, I went to their homepage and didn’t see any ads besides the normal ones you see on the side of every page (usually whatever I bought most recently on Amazon). I’m sure they get some revenue from advertising, but it has to be dramatically lower than it once was.
which may be why the sneakily raised the price to $3 from $2 recently, and took the price off the paper. it is a true piece of shit