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Originally Posted by cfw123
......What worries me about newspapers is the very real possibility that they will just go away -- at least the print versions, except for a few large national ones like the USA Today. My local print version newspaper (SJMN) is getting smaller and smaller, with less and less real news as they have laid off a large percentage of their reporters. Even the adverts are fewer and fewer, but I discard these immediately anyway, so no loss for me there. But the financial loss for the newspapers must really be severe. And I'm sure this is happening everywhere as advertisers are fleeing the newspaper for other outlets.
I guess in the newspaper-less future we face that news will come only by radio (intermixed with mostly advertisements), TV -- ditto for advertisements, and email via the news services. Maybe that 's okay. I do need more time to read really worthwile works on my Kindle anyway.
Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif.
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You are right to be afraid. They are going to go away. Paper books are safe for a while longer, but newspapers are facing their paper demise. Most people I know (myself included) just get the news from online. It's faster, more up-to-date, etc. Most local papers will just have their own website if they want to stay alive.
My local paper laid off a bunch of people as well. Hard times to be in the newspaper business--printing and distribution are very expensive and they are not getting new readers. The
paper newspaper generation is coming to an end.
But it's not like reporters will have to be out of work though. I mean, we still need new, well written content.