Would you like the Buffalo News to improve its quality and content?

[Achbek1]

Would you like the Buffalo News to improve its quality and content?

It is, after all, the only newspaper we've got. Would you like to see it turn around and have more substantial coverage and articles? If so, vote yes.

Or would rather have it shrivel up and slip away, so that you could cancel your subscription if you haven't already and instead get your news from other sources. If so, vote no.

If you are oblivious to news of any kind, vote that you don't care.

[WNYresident]

They need to be improved to be more connected to the community as a whole. They should also look at thier paper as a community builder and not a possible agenda front for the political flavor of the day. I'm talking in general and not refering to them as politically controlled or anything like that.. :)

I wish the buffalo news was locally owned. I heard they are owned by that ga-zillionar warren buffet. Buffet doesn't live in WNY does he? maybe he does and I dont know.

I'm not saying capitilism is a bad thing but all the net profit the paper earns is sent out of state, isn't it? That's probally like a drain of millions a year poofed out of WNY?

The only major local newpaper isn't locally owned. Doesn't that seem sort of odd?

[woodstock]

They need to be improved to be more connected to the community as a whole. They should also look at thier paper as a community builder and not a possible agenda front for the political flavor of the day.
good point

I'm talking in general and not refering to them as politically controlled or anything like that..
okay then i'll say it.

[Linda_D]

I would like to see some journalistic integrity in the Buffalo News which it currently lacks. News articles need to be factual not slanted to fit editors' politics (see yesterday's article on Empire Zones or any article in the SNOOZE on the casino or the Seneca Nation of Indians for examples). Put the op-ed on the editorial pages where it belongs.

[SolarEclipse]

Sure, I'd like to see improvements. But I don't care about the paper, I want to see the online edition improved and add RSS feeds. I find myself going less and less to sites if they don't have an RSS feed.

[granpabob]

television section sports and coupons are ok and Mom likes her cross word puzzle but since we cancelled a few years ago and just got the sunday paper for granma no one has missed it. unless it was time to make a fire and we could not find paper to start it with

[yaksplat]

I wish the buffalo news was locally owned. I heard they are owned by that ga-zillionar warren buffet. Buffet doesn't live in WNY does he? maybe he does and I dont know.


I believe that he lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

[WNYresident]

So if he lives there why would be buy a news paper here? He's a bit out of touch with this local community isn't he?

[atotaltotalfan2001]

So if he lives there why would be buy a news paper here? He's a bit out of touch with this local community isn't he?

Believe or not, papers can still be highly profitable. His company, I think it is called Hathway Berskhire, is interested in The News as a money maker, not as a newspaper.

The days of locally owned newspapers are pretty much long gone.....

[FJB]

The real problem is not that the reporters don't want to report the news. It is because Mr. Buffet has huge interests in the Democratic party and the money and tax breaks he recieves. Because of that, reporters like Spina, McCarthy, And Tan have been edited to the point their stories aren't near what was origanally written. Mr. Buffet has the News, and Gieco tax breaks. If the News goes after the Dems. who knows what happens to the breaks. He however allows the news to go after the republicans as much as they want. If you noticed very little is said about the IP or CP since they cut deals with the Dems this past election cycle.

[lyn1639]

Believe or not, papers can still be highly profitable. His company, I think it is called Hathway Berskhire, is interested in The News as a money maker, not as a newspaper.

The days of locally owned newspapers are pretty much long gone.....

And it's going to become more of a money maker when it changes to mornings only next spring here, this May in Niagara County. More press people gone, more drivers gone, more warehouse workers gone. The kid who brings your paper? Gone, to be replaced by adults who will deliver them in the same way as USA Today, Wall St. Journal, NY Times ---- tossed in a bag. You'll be paying your bill directly to the News a couple of times a year so the newspaper fairy can leave you an orange bag of paper every morning. And WE paid for the new presses by way of economic development funds, because poor, old Mr. Buffett only makes a million dollars a week. I don't know what the advertising rates are, but there are circulars of some sort almost every day.