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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Since I wronged you in another thread, I'm glad to agree with you here.
Newspapers withered (at least, their staffs have withered) before publishers because people are more willing to read news stories on a PC than to read a novel on a PC. Internet-connected PC's became ubiquitous maybe a dozen years before eReaders became widespread. Not that history is going to repeat itself exactly, or that one can predict the future. (Well, one can predict it, just not with risk of egg on the face.)
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No problem; I didn't feel wronged.
That's so true about reading news on a PC. The articles are short in both length and attention span, making it quite easy to read from. Besides web media, newspapers also have to compete with television and radio. Newspapers have their backs against the wall and are facing an uncertain future. Even if they go digital, there's the problem of competing against the free content so readily available.
I use Google news on my PC as my primary news source. For my handhelds, Pulse is my primary source. Audio streaming finds me hitting BBC, NPR, CNN, and C-SPAN for national and international news. For the local stuff, I use radio, NWCN, and some local newspapers via their websites.
I'm not left wanting and have more than enough sources to choose from if any should disappear behind a paid wall.