This past weekend, I was reading over a analytical piece....covering monthly 'guests' of the top fifty newspapers in America.
So from 2020 to now....the guest level (readership per month) has dropped around 40-percent (14 million to 8 million).
In simple terms? The dinosaur-media of news....newspapers....are heading toward extinction.
Reasons? You can probably lay out dozens of reasons.
Personally, I think three of the big reasons are:
1. People have been trained to limit themselves to hyped-up priorities by the bigger-media (social media) and the TV news media. Local news is less important to a majority of people.
2. People don't have time to gaze over a local paper. You can figure most papers require 20 minutes to gaze over the front page, the local news section, and sports.
3. People tend not to believe what they read or hear....so you make decisions to either mute-hear or mute-read.
What'll happen in a decade? I suspect that about half of the newspapers that exist today....will drift down to six pages max, and half of that will be national news 'crap'.
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Eugene, Oregon.
We see this page reduction in the local communist newspaperprogramming, 'The Eugene Weekly'.
At their peak a decade ago, an issue was forty pages, with a richly varied 'events' calendar of around six pages -- music, gatherings, concerts, classes.
This last year, the Weekly is down to four or six pages.
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The staff compensates with syndicated astrology and advice columns by perverts.
Their communist editorials are a big thing these days, some issues have five editorial political articles...
... but most of them resemble a cut-n-paste globally-available press-release.
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The kicker:
The layout, the content, the type-set are all duplicates of other similar newspaperprogramming in:
* Sacramento
* Reno
* Santa Cruz
* Fresno
... and probably others.
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I get the impression the BOLSHEVIKS are on the way out...
... to be replaced by freedom and liberty folk.
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