Newspapers' changing their daily print schedule to three days a week -- a cost-slashing move several papers, including the New Orleans Times-Picayune, have taken recently -- "is like
having CBS and NBC going dark on nights when they do not sell much advertising," according to some industry analysts cited by Christine Haughney in this article.
“For the local
papers, this is their best attempt at survival,” argues one analyst. But other sources, from advertisers to journalism teachers to newspaper execs themselves, weigh in on different sides of the
issue.