[2banana]

Who reads newspapers anymore?

The liberals DESTROYED that media. No one believes what they print and so less and less people read them.

And it will never come back.

[muawiyah]

Actually there were TWO media in tight competition for the exact same advertising dollars. One of them was known as newspapers and magazines, the other was called THE YELLOW PAGES.

Although the yellow pages are still produced the greater part of their advertisers moved to the Internet as fast as they could. You could see that happening in 1996!

Most newspapers and magazines weren't satisfied with the money they had and demanded and got a government subsidy from the federal government for editorial matter ~ which could be sent cheaper than the advertising content. A complete science grew up around how that content might be measured with ever greater precision.

Worse, newspaper and magazine publishers were so greedy they held to this theory that it was better to force the customer to read through the entire periodical than to give him a useful index! If the post office hadn't required indices/tables of contents with page numbers the publishers would have never done it.

The Yellow Pages were highly structured with both logical contents sections, complete indices and page numbers fore, aft, and in between sometimes top and bottom.

The methods and practices of the publishers when it came to filling the 'news hole' are something I'll never miss ~

[Jedidah]

I have to respectfully disagree with you on this point.

If liberal opinion killed newspapers, you would have to explain how legions of liberal broadcasters stay on the air.

Liberals have made a mucked-up mess of much of our society, but the decline of newspapers is truly just a result of technology.

In delivering news as it happens, they simply can’t compete with TV and the internet.

In advertising, which is where newspapers make their money, they can’t compete with the internet. Who is going to buy a print ad when they can advertise for free through e-mail and craiglist?

Newspapers are shrinking as did the carriage trade, saddlery, carbon paper, and now the post office. It’s just a sign of the times.

[ops33]

Even the used cars ads in the paper are more honest than the editors.

[T Ruth]

Who reads newspapers anymore? The liberals DESTROYED that media. No one believes what they print and so less and less people read them. And it will never come back.

You are right on the mark.