The New York Times reports that Tronc, successor to Tribune Publishing, has just acquired the New York Daily News. Tronc also owns The Morning Call. Part of the deal is that both The Morning Call and Hartford Courant will be printed in Jersey City.
The Express Times is no longer printed locally. But that newspaper at least informed its customers when it decided to have the paper printed in Staten Island. If The Morning Call has told its readers, I've missed it.
You'll find out when your paper starts arriving a few hours late every day.
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Tuesday, September 05, 2017
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"You'll find out when your paper starts arriving a few hours late every day."
ReplyDeleteNo problem. We'll just go back to calling it "The Evening Chronicle" again like it was when it was ended in 1985.
Wait, people STILL get home delivery??
ReplyDeleteHuh.
Ooops make that 1980. The Millers retired and sold the newspaper in 1984
ReplyDeleteThe Morning Call offices will likely then be moving to one of Reilly's NIZ buildings, and the wrecking ball will be swinging at 6th & Linden
ReplyDeleteBut where will the $2.60 cigarette tax stamps be applied if not in the existing MC building?
ReplyDeleteThere's not much news anyhow, so two days late will not make a difference. Oh yeah, welcome to labor union politics. The big, stronger printers union locals are in Jersey City, not Allentown, Pa.
ReplyDeleteI think the Morning Call is a good paper but the cost of home delivery has been rising over the years. I now pay $60 for 10 weeks + tip. '
ReplyDeleteI like the WSJ too but even that has gone up to $4/paper weekdays & $5/weekend edition if you pick it up at the store.
I'm just thankful this blog is free and hasn't gone to a membership only. I find good local coverage here that just doesn't show up anywhere else.
Thanks.
Big Bob
Anon 2:18, thanks for the necessary anti-union shot. Where would we all be without you folks.
ReplyDeleteNot many read the moronic gag any longer any way. Most people use it for dog droppings and grease dribblinz!
ReplyDeleteThis particular news venue is truely a edited out unnews worthy fake news. Look in the inner city were the people cut out adds and than sell the stuff from there porches. Just more garbage to fill the streets that look like the carnival just ran through already!
We should play a fill in the blank Game: The Morning Call to be printed in New Jersey......Because no one in the Lehigh Valley reads it!
ReplyDeleteWhat is a newspaper? I know what it used to be.
ReplyDelete@3:16 just inform the Mcall you want a better deal, I get Thurs-Sun 1 year $5 plus the digital subscription. The year before that I got the same deal for free.
ReplyDeleteThey need eyeballs so they can charge for advertisement.
I used to like when there was a stand alone local section - now its turning into USAtoday with shorter stories. Full page ads every other page and larger pictures to eat more real estate.
They keep throwing unsolicited copies on my lawn. I'm not the only one.
ReplyDeleteThe death knell just started. R.I.P. Morning-Call, you out-lived your usefulness. J.B. can start demolition as soon as you rent one of his other tax assisted low rent properties!
ReplyDeleteThat's it, paper canceled yesterday, no more local news for the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania. Unbelievable
ReplyDeleteYou scooped the Morning Call on the print story, Bernie!
ReplyDeleteWell, somebody tipped me. :-)
ReplyDelete@8:42
ReplyDeleteActually no he didn't. Note the time stamp, 7p last night.
http://www.mcall.com/business/mc-biz-questions-over-morning-call-printing-allentown-20170905-story.html
I've said it before. This paper would be a lot more useful if it were printed on double-ply paper.
ReplyDelete"@8:42
ReplyDeleteActually no he didn't. Note the time stamp, 7p last night.
http://www.mcall.com/business/mc-biz-questions-over-morning-call-printing-allentown-20170905-story.html"
Do you take stupid pills? My story published at 11:59 am on 9/5. The Morning Call story published at 7 pm on 9/5. So yes, I was 7 hours ahead of them.
@9:22 am
ReplyDeleteSorry, I was out drinking late last night/this morning and wasn't paying attention. You can relate to that, right?
Not since 1985. God you are full of hatred, aren't you?
ReplyDeleteAfter seeing what newspapers charge for advertising, they should be free.
ReplyDeleteDoes it really matter whether it arrives a few hours later? We get the Wall Street Journal, that is printed in New Jersey. The thing about the Morning Call is the utter contempt they show to their home delivery readers. We had a package deal from our subscription to the Bethlehem Press; I think it began as Thursday -Sunday. When it came at all.
ReplyDeleteActually, for a few years, it was delivered regularly, then, we stopped getting the Friday paper. OK, we really wanted the Thursday paper and the Sat. and Sun papers most. Then they sent us a written notice that they were not going to send the Saturday paper any longer. Then, without any notice at all, they simply stopped sending the Thursday paper. We like the Thursday paper because of Paul Muschick's column, which appears Thursday and Sunday. And the Thursday paper had coupons in it.
Meanwhile, they used some outfit to deliver it who had no ethics, no desire to do a half-way decent job. The paper was in the garden, it was in the street. There were times it was half-way down the block, because they threw it in the street on a windy day. We complained to the Wall Street Journal about that, and they insisted the sorry outfit who delivers put it on our porch--after about a year of complaints-- where it used to be standard practice to place the paper, prior to the half-assed contractors being given the green light to throw it in the street. And, whatever sections of the Morning Call they were throwing out that day, of course, also were on the porch.
More recently, they have also decided to put special Sunday sections in the Saturday paper. But they stopped giving us the Saturday paper, so as a result, our Sunday paper did not include things like the Sunday Go guide, the Lehigh Valley Business outlook, and more recently, the Sunday arts section. Then, last week, they brought us the inside guts of the Saturday paper, but without the news pages, and lo! we did for once get to see the Sunday special sections, no coupons, though. Meanwhile, if you go out to pick the Sunday paper up at Wawa, you get all the parts. But the dopes who pay subscription prices for the paper are treated with contempt, the hell with them, if they get some sections of the paper at all, they should be grateful.
So, no way would I subscribe to the Morning Call, it has shown its truly despicable nature. Why would the Morning Call treat its own product with such contempt, AND treat the paying customers with utter contempt, all the while whining that their circulation is going down? Arrogant idiots! They are going to behave like this and expect circulation to go up? I do not want the digital edition, I like the coupons and the Go guide to keep until next week, I like to read the paper on the front porch, or in my favorite arm chair. RIP Morning Call.