BJ JOINING TREND TO END PRINTED NEWSPAPER, ONE DAY AT A TIME

 No printed BJs on Monday. Which day is next?

One day down and only 7 more to go before the BJ no longer delivers printed editions.

BJ management announced that there will be more BJs printed on Mondays, starting March 7.

BJ Editor Michael Shearer, perhaps tongue planted deeply in his check, said “Print remains an important part of our overall strategy.”

Tell that to Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, next on the chopping block.

Blame USA Today, which is calling the shots for Summit County readers now.

The print editions may be dead, one day at a time, but BJ readers can go online to read the obituaries. Which I do every day by simply check the cadre of funeral homes in the area. The obits appear on funeral home websites before they do in the BJ so it’s old news by the time the BJ prints them. Or, in this case, doesn’t print them on Mondays, for now, and neverdays eventually.

Who’s next? Tuesdays?

No longer will senior citizens know what day it is by picking up their BJ at their doorsteps. Digital editions is an important part of the BJ’s overall strategy.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is printed only on Sundays, which makes it a weekly if you don’t have access to the Internet for the digital hand-me-down version.

McClatchy, which once owned the BJ (a revolving door situation in recent decades), stopped printing on Saturdays at every one of its newspapers by 2020.

Wyoming has NO newspaper printed 7 days a week when Lee Enterprises’ Casper Star-Tribune dropped Mondays and Tuesdays as printed editions.

The Tampa Bay Times, once a big deal, had only Wednesday and Sunday printed editions.

Southern Newspapers, with 10 newspaper in Texas and 1 in Oklahoma, has cut back to only 2 to 5 days of printed editions a week, depending on where they are located.

And those who deliver newspapers go from an everyday job to a wherever the owner/publisher feels like it job, in Arkansas the carriers have to find other work 6 days a week.

Why not end the charade and have NO printed newspapers anywhere in America? Instead of chopping off one day at a time to soften the blow.