Sorry if I took your comment the wrong way, like the Buffalo News is the way it is by choice. (I guess it is a choice..the choice of their new crappy owners.) My wife worked for newspapers for years as an editor (and me as a freelance stringer for 3 years) and the combination of bad owners, plus the reality that no one reads papers anymore, even the emergence of Craiglist destroying the want ads pages (a real cash cow) all contributed to this sorry state.