How efficient are the newspapers with regard to publishing notices?
Newspapers by nature are a regional medium and even if a newspaper has a proprietary website, one needs to know or guess which jurisdiction or newspaper to search for public notice. This makes searching and finding a particular notice in newspapers extremely difficult and potentially prejudicial to one’s rights. To save money, people and businesses often use the cheapest newspaper to satisfy notice requirements. This results in notices being published in obscure, low-circulation periodicals which the general public rarely reads — thus defeating the important public policy behind notice requirements: namely, the widest possible dissemination of the information.
