“newspapers”
How quaint. How twentieth century.
They are owned by the party and simply exist to disseminate the commie party “news releases.”
Craigslist is a magnet for scammers and oddballs but it did do us all a great service and exacted a huge measure of revenge by undercutting the classified ad sections of newspapers.
The classifieds were stupid expensive, even compared to display ads, hence the often cryptic abbreviations, and they were the financial lifeblood of many papers.
Price gouging and monopolies are ugly things (as Obamacare has demonstrated) and the smug editors and columnists at these papers got their just desserts as they watched the business model go up in smoke.
I would, honestly, pay a reasonable amount for a newspaper with no advertising at all to eliminate obvious and ongoing influence by advertisers. For example, papers will report on bad pothole repair or slow mail but they won’t touch stories on bad service at car dealerships. Gee, I wonder why?
Anyway, papers abused their financial and First Amendment roles and made a rod for their own back.
Now we have to get rid of “broadcast media”. They are bad or worse than the papers.
They seem to think that these days, they can have a guest on, then tell them they are wrong or a liar.