Others are stepping in to save newspapers. Colleges are creating newspaper cooperatives with their local paper to bolster dwindling resources. In Washington, one senator wants to allow newspapers to have a non-profit status. Heck, France is even considering government funding to support newspapers.
You can help, too….
If, that is, “you” are Oprah Winfrey, to whom the above letter from Todd Franko, editor of The (Youngstown, Ohio) Vindicator, is addressed.
Because Winfrey’s audience “do[es] what you say,” Franko writes, Winfrey should never again host on her show a guest who suggests that people cut newspaper subscriptions to save money in this economic climate (as did Winfrey guest Suze Orman recently). Winfrey should instead “talk up newspapers” like she apparently did on November 5th when she “endorsed” the Chicago Sun-Times, after which the Sun-Times
