I wonder how many Shaw readers are like me and do not use a computer or anything that knows what streaming is. Many of the “smart phone” users I know use them only for talking. How many readers have a flip phone that doesn’t text or take messages. Buttons and screens are too small for anything else.

            The subscribers to a newspaper want the actual paper between their fingers. Those are the people the Joliet Herald are hurting by cutting the Monday delivery. This is after cutting the Saturday paper then delivering the Saturday and Sunday expanded issue on Saturday. If a reader wants to complain about the loss of the Monday paper Shaw will credit the reader with a whole half dollar per week. They charge us more than that for each weekday.

            Because the newsprint is higher priced at the moment due to the political friction with Canada, The Chicago Tribune raised their price fifteen cents. The price for both papers is too high because the owners are more interested in profit than journalism. The Freedom of the Press is an American privilege and one which is being abused by cutting the number of reporters and replacing some of the experienced ones with novices. Less staff means less local reporting. Some newsrooms print unedited Press Releases to save money.

            Cutting days a paper is distributed is anti-American and unpatriotic especially when it is done in the name of greed. Will advertisers say they want a one-sixth price reduction?