Wouldn’t their 1940 levels be high? There were people who didn’t own radios in the 1940s... Their only news would be in newspaper format.
Well, when you consider that the population of America in 1940 was about 132 million people , versus about 335 million today, we can see that the per capita circulation is far lower now, even if the circulation today is at 1940 levels.
Newspapers have not been very successful in getting Internet subscribers, as the circulation of the actual printed newspaper has declined so severely.
Wouldn’t their 1940 levels be high?
1940s?
Small town newspaper - Local news & gossip, who was visiting who on Sunday afternoon, so & so and girl friend was visiting his mother over the weekend, high school basketball & football, etc. All set by hand.
Next notch up - county newspaper - same with addition of county business. Both weeklys.
Bigger towns would have dailys with less local stuff and national news. As I recall, AP was one of a number of services.
Except for local talk radio, local news has disappeared.