Cutting costs can raise costs

Many newspapers have cut costs by reducing staff, including copy editors. One of the major jobs of a copy editor is to proofread. I am finding more and more errors in newspapers.

Last week I found two 2's in the same sudoku square and another square where it would be impossible to put a two. In another issue I found "covert" as a verb instead of convert. And I've found many a truncated article.

These errors can raise costs in many ways. A couple I can think of are staff to read the complaints in email and the people who stop reading.

Well, I never make misteaks. (And sometimes spell checkers don't let me.) Somday I'll proof it to yuo.

Efficient corporations living within their means?

Every so often we receive mail for students who lived in our current house twelve or more years ago. Today we had an offer from AT&T for one of them. AT&T has it right that he is a physician, but I doubt that he was a physician when he lived here. I wonder how much money companies waste with outdated mailing lists.

Many are complaining about the Duluth School system wanting to raise taxes about $100 per year, and they often complain by sending letters to the Duluth News Tribune. I wonder if any stopped to think that the Duluth News Tribune has raised its newsstand price by over $100 per year or 33-1/3 percent (25 cents daily and 50 cents on Sunday).

Speaking of the Duluth News Tribune, if it has to cut costs, why is it inserting in the Sunday edition the same weekly newspaper that is delivered for free on Saturday. Every Saturday a carrier throws a copy of the Budgeteer on almost every doorstep in Duluth. Every Sunday I pick up the Duluth News Tribune at the corner and it includes a copy of the Budgeteer.