{"id":4180,"date":"2009-01-27T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/another-day-another-newspaper-casualty\/"},"modified":"2009-01-27T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T04:48:00","slug":"another-day-another-newspaper-casualty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/another-day-another-newspaper-casualty\/","title":{"rendered":"Another day, another newspaper casualty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I wrote recently that <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/will-newspaper-failures-cripple.html\">the economic downturn<\/a> was going to push a newspaper industry that was already struggling to the brink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In New Mexico, there\u2019s another casualty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegasoptic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Optic<\/a> announced today that it\u2019s going to end its \u201clong history\u201d as a daily and begin publishing only three days a week starting March 2. The Monday-Friday paper, which has published since 1879, will become a Monday, Wednesday and Friday paper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cEconomic circumstances necessitate the change. We\u2019ve got to cut expenses,\u201d Optic Publisher Tom McDonald said in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegasoptic.com\/cgi-bin\/c2.cgi?080+article+News+20090127135408080080030\" target=\"_blank\">a posting on the newspaper\u2019s Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The newspaper\u2019s scaling back comes at a time that many other state newspapers, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a>, have experienced budget cuts. Newspapers across the nation are facing similar struggles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This is a sad day for the newspaper industry in New Mexico and for the residents of San Miguel, Mora and Guadalupe counties. The newspaper, which has a paid circulation of 4,359, follows the Journal and New Mexican, which have already scaled back their coverage of communities north of Santa Fe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Who will pick up the slack? Someone needs to start an online publication up there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote recently that the economic downturn was going to push a newspaper industry that was already struggling to the brink. In New Mexico, there\u2019s another casualty. The Las Vegas Optic announced today that it\u2019s going to end its \u201clong history\u201d as a daily and begin publishing only three days a week starting March 2. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}