Another Big Failure by Wisconsin newspapers.

A creamery in Portage had a huge fire, and a river of butter threatened to clog the Portage Canal.

Not a word in the #LaCrosseTribune, the #WisconsinStateJournal, or any of the other #LeeEnterprises papers. Why was The #Guardian the first outlet to tell us about this? #RiverOfButter #Wisconsin
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/05/butter-wisconsin-dairy-plant-canal-melted

Lee Enterprises under fire in privacy lawsuit
DAVENPORT, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) -- The Iowa-based newspaper chain Lee Enterprises is facing a potential class-action lawsuit alleging it has shared readers’ pers
https://www.heartlandnewsfeed.com/2022/12/29/lee-enterprises-under-fire-in-privacy-lawsuit/
#BreakingNews #National #BarbaraGrazioli #BrittneyStoudemire #DanaFoley #DouglasCastle #Facebook #LeeEnterprises #LucindaJackson #NancyVaughan #newspapernews #VideoPrivacyProtectionAct

A data point in the death spiral of local news: #LaCrosseTribune said "we won't let you read this unless you turn off your ad blocker." So I turned it off and read the news. That worked for... a year, maybe?

Now they won't let me read anything, even with the ad blocker disabled. "Only if you pay." But why should I pay when 95%+ of the "content" comes from the mother ship in Madison.

Free stock advice: Short #LeeEnterprises. They're destroying themselves.