From: ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com   
      
   On 2026-01-31, rbowman  wrote:   
   > On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:41:42 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:   
   >   
   >> I know. Reading an e-Magazine is just not the same. Newspapers as well.   
   >> The ones have survived have gotten ridiculously thin.   
   >   
   > The local rag was barely good for fish wrap and then it was bought by Lee   
   > Enterprises in Iowa. They fired the local people. There is a plan to tear   
   > down the physical building and build luxury condos that is as popular as   
   > herpes.   
   >   
   >   
   > A friend at work subscribed and left a copy in the mens room. I was   
   > puzzled and when I came out I asked him if it wasn't a lot narrower that   
   > it used to be. Yup. So, narrower and thinner.   
      
   I remember in the 80s, when I first moved to Idaho, the Idaho Statesman was   
   a thick daily — owned by Gannet (USA Today people). They built a new   
   building just for the web press (I guess there was a fire there in 2004).   
   It's gotten really thin now. I found out a few years ago it was being   
   printed in Nampa by another paper (that used to be the poor cousin), the   
   Idaho Press-Tribune in Nampa. Now, when I look on Wikipedia, I find that,   
   since 2023, that the print edition is only coming out three days a week and   
   is being printed by Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho.   
      
   This was the major newspaper of record in Idaho. (Maybe it still is?)   
      
   Gannet sold the Idaho Statesman to Knight-Ridder in 2005, and in 2006 McClatchy   
   bought Knight-Ridder. I guess McClatchy still owns them.   
      
   The fact that I didn't know the Idaho Statesman was only coming out three   
   days a week pretty much shows how much interest I have in these thin   
   newspapers anymore. The Idaho Statesman, from the 80s at least, was the   
   bastion of "liberal" BS in Idaho, so it never was my paper of choice.   
      
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