Originally Posted by BryceC 
This is going to sound bad, but I have a theory that there is a large portion of the older generation that will get the paper no matter how bad it gets because it's the daily paper. Nobody I know in my age group gets it and is likely not going to get it. Basically it will take a large portion of current subscribers dying off to spur change. The Rag is owned by a corporation now so only once the bottom line is effected will they really start to care about the product.
That makes a fair bit of sense.
However, aren't the Star and Herald owned in a similar fashion? And I doubt their demographics are much different that the Rags.
I'm going with the earlier theory of incompetence and indifference. From the top on down.
