From Huron Radio News comes a warning that several South Dakota newspapers, including the Brookings Register and Huron Daily Plainsman look to be no more:
The complete list of South Dakota NMC newspapers is available here.
South Dakota
- Brookings Register – Brookings, SD
- Moody County Enterprise – Flandreau, SD
- The Daily Plainsman – Huron, SD
- Redfield Press – Redfield, SD
- Payday – Huron, SD
And we all read about this on our phones.
And that really answers all the questions, doesn’t it? Sad
That Mr. Bordewyk, who has clawed to eek business for dying papers like that Sioux Falls newspaper, is probably very sad right now. It’s a real gut-punch, it is, to the dying newspaper world. It is good those two young fellows from the Scout Lounge swooped in the salvage a reporter or two in these towns and pay them to deliver the papers printed from the blogging place. Let us all hope the Rapid City Journal, a breakfast read daily for many, survives and is not eaten up by the Scout Lounge.
Daily Plainsman was a very liberal paper
Compared to what?
DP was almost all national stories from the AP wire. Few local stories. I’m struck by the letter dated the same date as they ceased operations, and a promise that they’ll really try, super duper hard, to pay wages. “We promise, you’ll get paid. Maybe.” Ugh.
Capitalism supports the best business models. Libbyism rarely fits that mold. This is good. Survival of the fittest. This will anger those who want handouts for the liberal news publications. Others will just shrug, and move on, without that Huron newspaper. Those coin boxes will become yard ornaments in the neighborhoods around the state fair zone.
Crony capitalism is always the model out here.
It seems apparent to most these news publications were poorly led by liberals who did not understand business and capitalism. The piranha news outfits, like those young fellows with the news Lounge, will sweep in and clean this mess up.
Given that the Moody County Enterprise covers a good chunk of District 25 and was dedicated to running cover for Tom Pischke so voters wouldn’t find out about his buffoonery, I am not going to miss that one. The editor’s late husband, may he rest in peace, was one of Tommy’s besties, and it showed.