You know, before Internet, blogging, FR, et al, going to get a arm load of the papers was my idea of heaven. I still have the habit, but less so. Now adays, I often don't even buy a paper, just go online. If I do buy papers, it is often after I have been online and it seems as if there isn't anything in that days paper worth reading. Furthermore, buying different papers is stale since so many of them are just wire service clipping the same articles, with the same boring lefty, and some times right wing columnists. I suspect the papers know that behind us is a young demographic age group that is not now, and will not buy newspapers. I think they are in a death spiral. Losing readers throughout the industry, declining revenues, work staff that is entrenched, stale, featherbedding and hopeing to hang on to the pension, and not attracting new talent. Kind of like the trend with CBS,NBC,ABC new viewers.
Good.
I was in j-school at the eruption of the internet age, and it was interesting to see how the information was being formulated and packaged. The professor I had (who is now an assistant professor at Ole Miss) who insisted on us learning all the old DOS protocols. Alas, now, most of those things are archaic, and .html is the way to go.
What I find now is that the new kids who are going into it - and being taught by the old librals who are entrenched in the j-schools are being met with resistance from these more conservative kids who, tho willing to work their ways up the feeding chain, aren't willing to espouse anything but what they are being taught - namely, regurgitate what's already been written. Those who are bucking the trade are writing for the new media, while the old reporters are "dying" off.
The few that are holding on for dear life are turning off the kids, who know that those who are hanging on by a thread, are espousing their own agenda.
(I would also get a mound of newspapers, but I am also a "compassionate conservative": someone who hates wasting paper, so I read my news online (to keep the paper waste down.) tee hee!