Who here actually reads a newspaper anymore?
I take a small town county newspaper mainly for local news and notices, but I haven’t even gotten a Sunday Paper in near 20 years. In contrast, anything that I’ve seen or heard where the AJC endorses a measure or person, that has been the death knell on it for me. No way no how.
Let’s put it into this prospective. A Town of 75,000 residents. Local newspaper is lucky if 15,000 of the resident subscribes and reads the paper. Of that, there might be 300 residents who care what the editorial board of a newspaper says about some candidate or their question-and-answer episode.
Move that up to a state with four million, and you might be talking about 2,000 voters statewide who care what the newspaper says.
Newspapers are marginal players in politics now.
Only The Wall Street Journal, and I know I'm a bit of a dinosaur by actually walking down the driveway every morning, getting the paper, and laying it out on the kitchen counter. As for the local rag, it's been almost a decade since I gave up on that, something I should have done long before.