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paleotn

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6. Other than a handful of big name papers...
Sun Jul 25, 2021, 10:40 AM
Jul 2021

all have gone this route. Changes in the market, ie. the internet and the rise of cable news, killed them. Ad revenue, newspaper bread and butter, has plunged the last 40 years. Staff cuts to make ends meet plus consolidation has destroyed the local newspaper industry. Other than a few local fluff pieces, the papers in damn near every medium sized American city are identical.

Gone are the days when we waited for the morning paper to see what's going on locally and in the wider world, since TV news didn't come on until supper time. If the paper was late, you knew something big was happening...or a press broke down. Politicians no longer fear locals who buy paper by the roll and ink by the barrel.

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