My weekly essay for the Saturday, Jan. 24 edition of KAXE’s “Between You and Me” call-in and music program will explore the show’s special topic of “classifieds.” The topic was picked in connection to this week’s unveiling of the Northern Community Internet project, a KAXE-sponsored community journalism site featuring news and views from citizens across Northern Minnesota. The site also features free classified advertising. Get it! Sometimes we’re not very subtle.
As a former newspaper man who still writes a column, I have a little bit of experience with classifieds. I’ve seen some funny ones, too, and will talk about those. Used to be the classifieds fueled huge profits for newspapers. Then Craigslist and a bunch of community journalism sites started running them for free, softening the market and sending newspapers into a death spiral.
Bastards. I mean, not bastards. I mean … I am so confused.
Tune in Saturday between 10 a.m. and noon on 91.7 FM in northern Minnesota or streaming live online at www.kaxe.org. My essay usually runs in the first 40 minutes of the show, depending on the number of calls.
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