Writer's Cramp

Good luck to the mismanaged Press (Corporate) Democrat, our county newspaper, which has increased its price by 50% while cutting 1.5 inches off the width of its little page. The paper's columnists are learning extreme brevity. I suspect that many old readers (and the newspaper readers tend to be old) won't pay 75 cents for this truncated collection of tiny tidbits, while the young people get their news off the 'net.