Cherry Road, about whom I've blogged before for its toxic wasteland job on the Sherman Dumpacrap, even twice, and before that, about it in general, is fixing to do the same to the Brownwood Bulletin and the Waxahachie Daily Light.
Per the Texas Press Association Messenger, it's cut print runs at both papers (neither of which I knew it owned) from triweekly to weekly.
"LOVE" this indirect quote comment by Jeremy Gulban, who has the title of publisher of CherryRoad Media (as in, really, only one publisher for ALL the newspapers you own? that's crap right there):
He added the frequency and delivery changes are directly related to economic and digital realities that make the continuiation of a daily paper increasingly difficult.
Puleeze! Triweekly papers have traditionally been considered non-daily, therefore neither of these was a daily before you cut the print runs. You'll even find that officially listed in some states' law codes. With that said, I'll have to see if they're cutting print days at the Dumpacrap, too.
And, while I'm here, TPA staff, next time somebody like this makes a claim like that? PLEASE feel free to add an editor's note at the end explaining what a daily paper has traditionally been.
While I'm also here, I know the Daily Slight had formerly been owned by ACM, which sold itself off years ago to old Craphouse. Wiki still listed the Bulletin as being owned by Craphouse, aka new Gannett, so must have been sold recently. (If that's not going from frying pan to fire, or from craphouse to crappier house.) But, if you're a newspaper corporation, please show that you care about the future of newspapers by not selling to CherryRoad when you do sell. And, if you're truly family-owned, please resist if you can.
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