Yesterday’s news today! Sums up all printed newspapers. By the time you read it, it has been all over the TV, radio or internet from 1 to 5 days ago.
The only reason they stay in business is due to the fact that businesses need to advertise...and they do at outlandish rates set by these dinosaurs. Now the internet is making advertising affordable for everyone with news that is fresh and instant.
Times and technology have changed but not the buggy whip industry (and newspapers). Their time has come and gone with only one exception...hometown newspapers that serve only the community they are printed in and carry only local news. They are the only ones that will survive and actually perform a useful service.
Times and technology have changed that business.
It’s happened before. Years ago, most cities had a morning paper and an afternoon paper. New York had multiple morning and evening papers. But most cities lost their afternoon papers years ago, around the time that TV was growing. The morning papers survived for years after, but now even they are being squeezed by cable TV news and the internet.
I heard that some major big city daily was considering just becoming a web site, with no print edition at all.
We could well see newspapers as we have known them disappear. The only remaining printed papers could be local ad flyer type papers.
Politics is also a factor. Why pay to read propaganda from a liberal paper?