This past Sunday, Aug. 5, in the New York Times was a special section on how difficult it has been for a surprising number of newspapers across the country, especially paper print versions, to remain profitable and keep the presses running.
I will not repeat the sad statistics here. I simply want to thank the Cape Gazette owners, staff, advertisers and subscribers alike for your parts in giving us, the public, such a wealth of information and local news twice a week. With the future of the News Journal at risk due to the probable merger of Gannett with Gatehouse, the presence of the Cape Gazette is even more important. I don’t even want to think about how much would be at risk here in Sussex County if we didn’t have the reporting of local land-use issues, and various political wheelings and dealings that the Gazette supplies us.
Like the Joni Mitchell song said, “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone.”
Jeff Seemans
Milton
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