Newspapers in the U.S. could be such a great educational tool. They are an amazing study in information gathering, collation, production and distribution. It’s just a damned shame the left corrupted them to the point the populace refuses to read that pap any longer. And I don’t mention price, because people don’t even read this rubbish when provided with the paper for free. In the hospital, the papers are tossed in the trash brand new. You’ve got to have your head pretty far up there not to understand this, when your job is to sell the damned things so you can turn a profit.
Our local rag, the Orlando sentinel, got some kid to talk my wife into subscribing on weekends only (she felt sorry for the kid). They give us a paper almost everyday now. Why? I'd bet my house its to inflate the readership stats so they can charge advertizers more.
Local, home town newspapers will be around for some time to come, and the way may be opening up for a few very large national papers.
The metropolitan and regional papers -- the big city papers that could once sway a state politically are in real trouble.
My gut feeling is that they went for the yuppie audience and got loaded down with trendy lefty arts and entertainment and lifestyle writers.
That pushed the political coverage further left to the point where if you weren't a part of that set you didn't want to bother with the paper at all.