Newspapers have to sell a lot of ads on a daily basis to even pay a small % of the costs of a big newspaper.
Subscriptions with most fish wraps has severely dropped as an economic factor!
Now, they must depend/exist on $’s generated by their sold ads
Tv ads can be bought and targeted to potential users.
Good luck trying to sell products/services to people who can barely read and talk in English vid newspaper ads.
>Subscriptions with most fish wraps has severely dropped as an economic factor!
You know what really started the process on the ongoing death of the print daily?
Craigslist
All those misc. ads ran to a lot of pages, brought in revenue, and people bought the paper for them, so it drove revenue on the purchasing side, too.
Gone nearly overnight.
What we are seeing today is the long drawn out death throes of dinosaurs. Plus people still subsidize them for the residual propaganda value.