#newspapers closing all over the countery

[johnschneiderblog]

A chink in the armor

What you're looking at here used to be the offices of the Cheboygan Daily Tribune. Last week they took the sign away.

The shop, on Main Street in my adopted northern-Michigan City, is now the Enchanted Knight. You can no longer buy a newspaper there, but you can get a suit of armor, or "fully functional" medieval weapons.

The news site Bridge Michigan quoted the owner of the new store as saying, “We have the largest selection of battle-ready weaponry you can find,”

Can we extprapolate from this that people are more interested in medieval fantasies than local news ...?

I don't know, but I do know that local newspapers are going the way of chain mail, accelerating in 2023 to an average rate of of 2.5 per week.

Cheboygan County has now joined the other 200 counties in the U.S. that are considered to be local news "deserts." But if we ever have need for a jousting lance ...

The Tribune was founded in the 1870s and began daily publication around 1910. What's left of it is owned by Gannett, the scourge of journalism that also owns the Lansing State Journal, the paper I worked for.