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Maybe Social Media is a nail in Local Newspaper's coffin, but Craigslist and Google Local came first, and put them in the coffin. From Wikipedia's "Decline of
by andrenotgiant 9y ago
Maybe Social Media is a nail in Local Newspaper's coffin, but Craigslist and Google Local came first, and put them in the coffin.
From Wikipedia's "Decline of Newspapers"[1]
>Free services like Craigslist have decimated the classified advertising departments of newspapers, some of which depended on classifieds for 70% of their ad revenue
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers
- gerbilly 9y agoBoth are factors, and I don't honestly know which is the larger factor, however, it's no longer just local papers that are affected. The large national dailies are getting thinner and thinner each year, each month it seems. Compare a Sunday times from today to one from the early nineties if you remember them. This is not good. A clickbait article on facebook that has been targeted to appeal to your biases is not the same thing as real journalism.