[SittinYonder]

The city papers are buying those little survivors to pad their own circulation numbers.

I think to degrees that's true everywhere. That business model seems to be the trend. I also think the corporations are destroying those little survivors through their business model and will end up losing profits there, too.

Do you think they'll survive doing that?

Personally, I love my hometown weekly paper and look forward to it each week. My dad still gets the weekly paper from where he grew up and he hasn't lived there in 40 years or more.

I'm really interested in where this trend is going and what the end result will be.

[FreedomFarmer]

It is somewhat akin to watching a game of Japanese Go.
Buy the paper, claim the territory.

It's being done with borrowed money for market share. Before the bill comes due, the chain is sold off to a bigger player.

The Press actually created the United States, long before the first shot was fired. It now seems content to destroy it's greatest achievement.

There will always be some kind of newspaper around, but its influence will continue to degrade.