Subscribers to the Plain Dealer woke up Wednesday to the paper’s official word on its new version of summer reading.  In a front-page Dear Readers column by  Robert Perona, the senior vice president of circulation, we were told  of the historic event scheduled for August 5 when the paper will shrink to a three-days-a-week home delivery with all sorts of “enhancement” to your “week end experience”

Like most newspaper announcements of their in-house plans to serve readers, the boilerplate column left us with many upbeat promises to soften the blow of days without a paper on our door step.  The Wednesday-Friday-Sundaycircuit will be offered as a […]