Newspapers: not dead yet

It’s sort of scary — touching, but scary — when Hesperia Unified School District employees ask me if my job is secure. The answer is that yes, it is.

(My role is at least; it’s certainly possible that I will sufficiently irritate my corporate masters to the point where someone else will be sitting in my chair.)

Although I can’t give details — frankly, the numbers go in one ear and out the other, even if I wanted to spill all the beans, which I don’t — the Hesperia Star is profitable. Quite so, when you compare the cost of doing business to the revenue generated.

And despite published doom and gloom to the contrary, it’s not alone in this regard:

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