I haven't bought a newspaper for a while. Sometimes when I take a long train ride I do. That said, the main reason is because of the cost. A years subscription here in Japan would probably cost me around $500 a year and I can read it at my local library for free. So while I do continue to read the newspaper regularly, I do it at my library's expense. If newspaper companies disappeared tomorrow what would we be left with? A bunch of internet aggregators that have never ever produced a single piece of original content in their existence. It would be a pretty uninformed world.
|