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Originally Posted by GA Russell
IMHO, if newspapers and magazines need to be saved, then the problem is the content, not the form.
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If that was the case then people wouldn't be visiting their online versions either and that simply isn't the case, the content is still in demand, the current format less so.
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As a simple example (and I don't want to start an argument about this), a Gallup poll of a couple of months ago found that only ca. 22% of Americans consider themselves liberals, yet nearly all metro daily newspapers are liberal. This is not to pass judgment on the newspapers themselves - only to say that there are not enough liberals to keep them afloat. That won't change just because paper and fuel costs are eliminated.
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Firstly, is it any wonder that not many people see themselves as liberal in the states after the idiotic way the term has been distorted and demonised by those on the right in america and as far as the media being mostly liberal thats an extremely dubious claim to make even with the way the term has been redefined in the states.
As I mention above with regards to online readers, if it was purely an issue of one ideology being unpopular then logically wouldn't it also mean that only newspapers in america would be suffering like this and it couldn't clearly be seen to be a global trend?