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One Of The 97 Reasons Newspapers Are Getting Hammered By The Net

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Jul 03 2007 12:00am EDT

One of the 97 Reasons Newspapers Are Getting Hammered By the Net

I'm in my hometown of Binghamton, N.Y., for family July 4 festivities. I started my journalism career at the Gannett-owned newspaper here, then called the Binghamton Evening Press. Tells you right there about a different era -- as if there are any evening newspapers around anymore. Still, the paper has a place in my heart. I'd like to be a fan.

But I just pulled up its Web site. You tell me if I'm wrong -- but it strikes me as one of the most butt-ugly, unusable, uninviting Web sites I've seen in some time.

Craigslist hasn't made its inroads in Binghamton yet. Local Web-based news and information is the newspaper's for the winning -- but not with a site like this.

Anyone know of other local newspaper sites that are this bad?

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