You can find more errors on one page (except for the pages that are solid advertising - they hardly ever screw those up) of the Dayton Daily News than in an entire weeks worth of any other paper I've ever read.
In the past week, just to skim the surface of their ineptitude, they have published a picture with the caption 'lastname' under it; shown a happy face when the home team lost (this is supposed to be a quick way to tell which way the game went - I guess they just changed allegiances for a day); and printed the same box-scores under the current and under the 'Too-late -for-yesterday' heading.
They constantly end articles in mid-sentence. At times their grammatical structure is so bad, even I am aware of it. An article will bottom out on page one with a note telling you it's continued on page 5a, only it's not. Sometimes you can find it elsewhere in the paper; sometimes you can't. The quality of the printed page itself is atrocious. The printing sometimes falls off the edge. More often, there's a big blank or smeared gash all the way down the sheet, so three or four words are missing from each sentence.
They recently changed their format 'to be more in tune with the times'. What they did is they use part of the front page to tell you what's inside. They use most of page two to tell you what is inside in a little bit more detail, and to tell you what they'll be telling you about in the days to come. I'm pretty sure they also switched to a larger font. So.... I'm paying just as much money for less news. On the bright side, the less 'news' they print, the smaller the chance that I will be misinformed.
They have even been known to fly the flag on their building upside down. Really. They have no competition, which is probably the root of the problem. You might be muttering to yourself, 'Just cancel your subscription then.' Well, I would, but the TV news REALLY pisses me off (but that's another diatribe), so my only source for local news is this sad excuse for a newspaper.
Please let me know what you think about your local newspaper.