Both 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

Both 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.