https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brunswick-news-stop-printing-monday-1.6315612
Brunswick News to stop Monday editions of 3 daily newspapers
Company also plans to stop charging for two of its weekly papers
The rationale was explained in a memo obtained by CBC News sent to people who deliver the company's print editions of the Telegraph-Journal, the Fredericton Daily Gleaner and the Moncton Times & Transcript.
"This business decision is due to lower sales on this day of the week, which have made it more difficult to print and distribute the product," the memo says.
The memo states the move will save printing and distribution costs.
The memo also says there will still be a Monday "replica" edition of The Telegraph-Journal available online.
Jamie Irving of Brunswick News was asked for comment on the changes, but there was no response by publication time.
The end of Monday print editions is not unusual in the industry.
Tim
Currie, the director of the school of journalism at the University of
King's College, says the move is not really surprising given how local
newspapers are starved for revenue. (University of King's College)
In the summer of 2017, the National Post announced it would no longer print a Monday paper.
Other newspapers have taken similar steps, including L'Acadie Nouvelle, the French-language New Brunswick daily that will stop printing on Mondays beginning this summer.
At the time of the announcement late last fall, publisher Francis Sonier said 50 per cent of the paper's readers only read the digital edition.
Tim Currie, the director of the school of journalism at University of King's College in Halifax, said the move by Brunswick News reflects an industry that is now serving mostly older readers.
"This move isn't surprising — and may be necessary, given the severe revenue pressures most local papers are under," Currie wrote in an email to CBC News.
"Still — it's unfortunate. Reading a daily newspaper is a habit for most people. When you weaken that habit, you weaken the audience ties. It can become a snowball."
The change with the dailies is not the only one coming from BNI at the end of the month.
Other changes
The same memo also said the Bugle-Observer, based in Woodstock, and the Miramichi Leader would no longer be offered as paid newspapers.
Instead, the memo said, "we will deliver them once per week, by Thursday, to all households in their coverage areas as a flyer package."
For Currie, this change is a bigger concern.
"I'm more worried about this," he said.
"Something you pay for has value. It's about perception."
Currie said in the early 2000s, newspapers made the mistake of giving away too much of their content for free and paid a big price for it.
"It helped support a notion that news wasn't worth paying for," he said. "And that's still a major challenge today.
"When editorial content appears alongside daily deals for the grocery store — that's not a good thing. And wouldn't bode well for the future of those papers."
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reasons do you need, oh oh oh oh?
I don't like Mondays
(Tell me why)
I don't like Mondays
(Tell me why)
I don't like Mondays"
------Sir Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof, KBE
The Wall's "Pink" Bob Geldof Hated Pink Floyd and They Hated Them
I always found it peculiar that Boomtown Rats Bob Geldof stared as "Pink" in Pink Floyd's "The Wall." He was great in the part and I can't image anyone else standing there with shaved off eyebrows and screaming like he did.
What I found out recently, Geldof hated Pink Floyd's music and the band hated him. There was a real war going back and forth between the band and Geldof during the movie recording. In fact, they decided to let Geldof improvise in most scenes and had given him no script.
Roger Waters has talked several times about Geldof not grasping the concept of The Wall.
When Geldolf, who did not sing on the album, was needed to sing 6 lines... he used his most "aggressive" Irish accent. Gilmour is heard on the studio tapes calling Geldof a "bastard" at the end of the recording session.
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