Every morning I start the online part of my day checking various news sources, beginning with the local newspaper online, the Wichita Falls Times Record News.
Upon moving to Wichita Falls I soon subscribed to the Times News Record. I continued that subscription for several years, til it finally dawned on me that there is not much news, of the local sort, in this local newspaper.
So, I cancelled my subscription.
I regularly get emails with discount offers trying to lure me back. Each morning, I still start with clicking on the Times News Record, but only because I can still click the weather tab without the click generating the "only available to subscribers" message.
And each morning when I click that link to get the weather report I see that which you see above, trying to get me to subscribe. What totally galls me is the part of the lure which claims, "Local reporting you can count on, every day."
Growing up in Washington, we always subscribed to the Skagit Valley Herald, the Burlington Journal and the Bellingham Herald. In college I subscribed to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, more commonly known as The P-I. Post college I continued subscribing to The P-I, til moving to Texas.
Til Wichita Falls I never lived in a domicile that did not get a daily newspaper delivery.
Upon moving to Texas, I soon found myself subscribing to a Texas newspaper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
And this was the first time in my life I found myself reading what I came to consider to be a terrible newspaper. And then I moved to Wichita Falls to soon find myself subscribing to a newspaper even worse than the Star-Telegram.
The Wichita Falls Times Record News is part of something called "The USA TODAY Network."
Click on the Times News Record link and you'll get a good idea of what a bad newspaper this is.
When you click on today's issue, on the front page you see the following as today's major headlines, with the headlines being links to reports detailing this important 'news'...
Searchers find body of missing man in Lake Buffalo in Iowa Park.
Devean Isaac turns injury into academic victory
Interactive summer art exhibit and classes opening soon
WD-40 debuts limited-edition 'King of the Hill' can
Texas Republicans can't move past Paxton impeachment in Senate race
If you click today's NEWS tab you go to a "NEWS" page with headlines leading to more in-depth reporting of important local issues...
If you click today's NEWS tab you go to a "NEWS" page with headlines leading to more in-depth reporting of important local issues...
Photos show dancers of all ages at Square Dance Land in Wichita Falls
Texas Lottery results post: winning numbers for June 2, 2026
Wichita Falls councilors hear Eastside flood mitigation report
Texas Lottery results post: winning numbers for June 1, 2026
An audit revealed more than 700 failures in Wichita Falls siren system
Texas has never picked an unmarried senator. Both candidates are in 2026
Trump renews promise to campaign in Texas for Ken Paxton in interview
In Wichita Falls racing rubber ducks raise revenue for charities
The Frank & Joe's coffee house in the Hospital District will close
Republicans still lead Texas governor, attorney general races
Wichita Falls' Premier High School celebrates largest class ever
Wichita Falls City Council to mull police station plans, worker influx
MSU graduate turns grief into a tribute for her father
Texas commercial truckers testing only in English, per DPS rule change
Wichita Falls woman dies in Archer County crash
Searchers find body of missing man in Lake Buffalo in Iowa Park.
Devean Isaac turns injury into academic victory
Well, that should give just about anyone a good idea of why it was a good idea to cease subscribing to this sad excuse for a local newspaper...
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