05/31/2026
Nobody sane will subscribe to that turd.
Coos Bay Area, OR Wants $4.99 a Month After Almost One Whole Year of “Years”
Coos Bay Area, OR is now asking people for $4.99 a month.
Not for a newspaper.
Not for reporters.
Not for somebody sitting through three hours of public meeting misery with bad coffee and a folding chair.
For a page.
And the best part?
The post says the page has been your source for local news “for years.”
Facebook says the page was created in 2025.
For years?
Buddy, your page is barely old enough to get blamed for a broken window at Pony Village Mall.
It’s still got soft spots on its head.
You don’t get to roll into town with a page born last April, slap “independent local media” on it, and start shaking the coffee can like you kept this county informed through the invention of electricity.
A 2025 page asking for subscription money while bragging about “years” of service is some beautiful Coos County math.
That’s like buying a boat on Friday, sinking it on Saturday, and telling everybody you’ve been a commercial fisherman your whole life.
For $4.99 a month, folks can apparently help support weather alerts their phones already gave them, event posts somebody else typed, and “breaking news” that usually shows up after half the county already heard it from a cousin, a scanner page, or a woman in line at Bi-Mart.
This isn’t Woodward and Bernstein.
It’s a page in a thrift-store sport coat asking to be treated like The World with fewer facts and more begging.
And look, everybody’s got to make a buck. Fine. Sell shirts. Sell ads. Sell raffle tickets for a used air fryer. This is America.
But don’t call a page created in 2025 a years-old local news source.
That thing isn’t seasoned.
It’s not even marinated.
It’s still sitting in the fridge with the price sticker on it.
Created in 2025.
Begging in 2026.
Calling it “for years.”
That’s not local journalism.
That’s a panhandler with a lighthouse logo and a bad memory.
Disclaimer: This is satire and opinion based on publicly visible page history and public page activity. Subscribe, don’t subscribe, throw five bucks in the ditch. Same odds.