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Magazines and newspapers are endangered species. The digital age giveth, and it taketh away.
The good news is the same as the bad news: it's easier and cheaper to produce and distribute content than ever before, and consumption is also cheaper and more convenient than ever before. We have seemingly infinite choices.
Our local newspaper still exists, but there is only the barest of local news in it, and page count is at most half of what it was 10 years ago, the pages are smaller and with more white space. They put in national news to fill most of what's left after paid advertising, and they publish almost no Letters to the Editor. It's hard to be grateful that it still exists, and I will hesitate to renew our subscription.
I probably pay $40-50 monthly for news subscriptions, not that I have time to read much of it.
"Are we in heaven, or are we in hell?"
A lot of both, I think, and I cannot propose any solutions. We'll have to muddle our way through.
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