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Originally Posted by Sregener
I don't know about this. While television news and cable made a dent in newspaper readership, I think nothing has hurt them as much as the Internet. It is simply too easy to be informed on your own schedule without getting a newspaper for most people.
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The death of the newspaper is a bit of an overstatement. Transitioning from newspapers to websites is fairly natural since you are dealing with a textual medium in both cases. Newspapers got that. Newspapers went online. While many of those newspapers may be suffering online, it has a lot more to do with having more competition from domestic and foreign sources than a failure to adapt to the new technology.
Claiming that newspapers are dead because they're online is like claiming that the novel is dead because people are buying ebooks. That just seems silly to me.