>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.
“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.
However, our son/daughters and adult grandkids use Craig’s list daily.
A grandson is a prime example of what you point out. He recently got a good degree and got a good job. He traded his old junker for a new living room/bed room sets and bought a new pickup diesel and brought his “new” furniture to keep in his parents garage until he got a good rental to live in.
Basically everything purchase was a Craig’s list purchase rode home in the back of his new pickup,
He sold most of his college stuff on Craig’s list.