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I think the problem is a simple assumption - people will leave the print version of My Local Journal and go to mylocaljournal.com when in fact they go from My L

I think the problem is a simple assumption - people will leave the print version of My Local Journal and go to mylocaljournal.com when in fact they go from My Local Journal to Buzzfeed or the Yahoo! homepage or Google News or Twitter or Facebook or RSS of their 10 favorite blogs etc... For example, I don't have a newspaper. I also don't check the local newspaper website. My wife, friends, relatives don't seem to either. The entirety of local news is mostly ignored. And yet, we are fine. So, is all of that news necessary or important to our lives? As it turns out, no.

JKCalhoun 10y ago
> So, is all of that news necessary or important to our lives? As it turns out, no. Or not yet, anyway.
poshli 10y ago
Let's revisit this thread on January 20, 2017!
matt4077 10y ago
The problem with that is that well-informed citizen are necessary for the functioning of a democracy. You can't make decisions without information.
coriander2 10y ago
It depends. In some ways people could argue that a rise in loneliness is linked to increasingly lower levels of community interdependence and engagement. I know this is garbage to the ears of Silicon Valley types, but I think a lot of people in rural areas would agree with it.