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   From Madison

   

   Jeff, Feb 8th, 2008 @ 1:49pm

   
   

   Being from Madison, this was a pretty interesting development. For the most part, nobody reads The Cap Times anymore. It is owned by the OTHER newspaper in town (The Wisconsin State Journal); though its (The Cap Times') focus tends to be solely local (Madison-only) in nature, where the Wisc State Journal is more general news.
   
   I think the WSJ wanted to keep the pure local perspective, but is turning it into a more "community website" than a traditional newspaper. Correspondingly, this will probably open a NEW market for TCT (young, computer-savvy folks) while alienating its current reader-base (aging hippies).

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   Gunnar, Feb 8th, 2008 @ 1:57pm

   
   

   I don't think Slate has a print version, and it feels credible.
   
   Any news site is credible if it has original, factual material.
   
   If there isn't enough news to fill a paper every day without a lot of wire copy, I think printing twice a week is a great idea. Most news isn't time sensitive. Who broke what first only really matters to competing newspapers.

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   Cap Times

   

   Geekazine, Feb 8th, 2008 @ 2:20pm

   
   

   There is one point you are missing on this one. The Cap Times will turn into a Tabloid, and will be part of the Wisconsin State Journal - which is also created by Madison Newspapers. They're not really getting rid of a paper, they are condensing 2 papers into 1 as well as enhancing their web presence.
   
   I don't read the Cap Times. I think it's a good idea to get things more interactive and still have a print version. Also the focus turns on the Morning paper (Wis. State Journal).

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   paper once a week

   

   Ian, Feb 8th, 2008 @ 3:00pm

   
   

   You have to understand this newspaper has a morning addition called the Wisconsin State Journal (7 days a week). The Capital Times has not been a very usefull paper for some time in my opinion. It is just a re-hash of the morning addition.
   Ian

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   why bother?

   

   troy, Feb 8th, 2008 @ 4:00pm

   
   

   I'm 38, would never subscribe to a printed paper. My children will never. I explain to my mother sometimes how the concept of printing old news on paper and carrying copies house to house to throw into the yard, already sounds antiquated. Last time I tried to read a printed newspaper (because it was all I had to read at the time) I was overwhelmed with the printed ad space. It's a dinosaur. It had it's day, was awesome in the right time, but that time has almost fully passed. I am more current on all current events, local and global, with online news reading. No print needed for me to feel that the site is credible. I'm not very green by my nature, just practical, and it seems a waste to keep printing old news on paper and delivering it with carbon-based fuel.

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   Ours Work

   

   WyRm, Feb 8th, 2008 @ 5:02pm

   
   

   In my home town we have a daily paper and paper that comes twice a week the twice a week is free also. I do not read the daily one but read the twice a week one.

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   The Way We Were...

   

   Esmeralda, Feb 8th, 2008 @ 5:29pm

   
   

   Hard to imagine that daily papers once came out twice a day, morning and evening editions. In my short lifetime, I've gone from being a daily multiple newspaper subscriber/reader to a strictly online news consumer. I hate newsprint on my hands, the waste that comes with having no easy way to recycle newspapers, and the general clutter that follows newspaper and magazine subscriptions.

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   Rose M. Welch, Feb 8th, 2008 @ 5:33pm

   
   

   I don't subscribe to our local paper, but will sometimes pick one up at the market on a Sunday if it looks good, as they are not really online. But the rest of the week is a joke, and even the paper offer Wednesday and Sunday, and Sunday only subscriptions. So they're saying that they realize that the rest of the week is crap, rofl.

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   2x a week

   

   Gary, Feb 11th, 2008 @ 6:06am

   
   

   Our local paper is delivered once a week. There are two papers in our county and both are weekly papers.
   
   pretty common in rural areas

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