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[Drango]

The 4th estate is a 5th column.

[Zakeet]

I wonder what it would look like if they took the Penny Shoppers, Car Traders and Apartment Locators out of the newspaper total. IRRC, they didn't become serious players before the 80's. Thus they are counted now, but weren't counted then.

[NativeNewYorker]

magazines and newspapers, the critical providers of original reporting

Still delusional.

[steven33442]

I like to read the local newspaper Sun Sentinel online. But the idea of having to go out early in the morning a fetch a paper copy of it is now repugnant to me. Practically none of my neighbors gets a paper copy anymore, except one neighbor who is in his late 60s. A paper newspaper seems so quaint . . and what a hassle to dump in the trash with all of those ads on Sunday

All in all, am delighted with the loss of the traditional newspapers. These papers thought they were well-loved, when in reality they were only tolerated because they had a monopolistic stranglehold on local news.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Excellent.

[razorback-bert]

A 1965 fine whine.

[balls]

All this tired discussion on whether the media decline is cyclical or secular is complete BS. These articles are missing the biggest factor; that is, how media companies such as the New York Times, MSNBC, and CNN are betting their businesses on particular ideologies and, in doing so, alienate at least 50% of the available market, given the current political polarization of the country. That means their financial fortunes fluctuate with the swinging political pendulum - and we know that is about to swing back to the right in time for the 2012 election.