WHY NEWSPAPERS ARE IN TROUBLE

Do you realize the hassle it would be to launch a newspaper from scratch? Start with chopping down the trees for the paper, and getting those little boxes to distribute it. Then pay a bunch of frustrated cynics to bang out some copy in college-term-paperese. Then pray you attract advertisers and that none of them will be offended if someone on your irritable writing staff has the gnads to veer from the diluted community fluff.
Now contrast this with the launch of the Portland Freelancer. 10 minutes on a computer, while I was killing time waiting for my furnace to be serviced.
Available around the world, right now, with the Internet providing enough subject matter for a trillion posts.
The Portland Freelancer. It almost sounds like a newspaper: The New York Times, The Oregonian, and the Portland Freelancer. What a sweet setup!