Call Your Legislators: Stop Corporate Welfare For Newspapers
Legislation that ends the requirement of “Legal Ads” being published in newspapers, in favor of the ads being posted on government websites, is on the calendar in both the Senate and Assembly on Monday, the last day of the current legislative session.
Call or email your legislators right now and ask them to vote YES on S-2072 in the Senate and A-2082 in the Assembly. You can find your legislators contact information here.
Classified ads in newspapers have gone the way of the horse and buggy. The Internet has made them obsolete. On most days Legals Ads make up the vast majority of the once thick classified section. The private sector has already voted. Taxpayers and those with proceedings before a court or board should not have to subsidize an antiquated practice.
Posting Legal Notices on municipal, county and state websites will lead to more people seeing them and will save the public between $12 and $70 million per year, depending upon who you believe. The newspaper industry says they ads cost only $12 million per year. Proponents of the bill says they cost $70 million.
Posted: January 7th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Legislature, New Jersey, NJ State Legislature | Tags: A2082, Legal Ads, Legal Notices, Newspaper Industry, S-2072 | 20 Comments »