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July 01, 2009

If It Matters To Oregonians, It's Going To Cost You A Quarter More

The Oregonian, Greater Portland and Oregon's Newspaper of record, after slashing costs, eliminating the evening "bulldog" edition, furloughing staff, and merging the Metro section into the rest of section A on Mondays to save printing costs, has hit on a possible solution to its problems:

They're going to charge you a buck at the newsstand/paper box, up twenty-five cents.

Which, of course, means that when it comes to the pape in PDX, you're getting less for more.

Practically indispensable.

(h/t Oregon Media Central, which seesm to be fast becoming the media go-to site around here these days).

Posted by The Chinuk at July 1, 2009 02:58 PM