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It was always inevitable that the largest newspapers would be the winners in a world with the internet. The only thing that propped up local newspapers was the
by xxpor 5y ago
It was always inevitable that the largest newspapers would be the winners in a world with the internet.
The only thing that propped up local newspapers was the monopoly they had on local distribution (for readers) and therefore eyeballs (for advertisers). The internet completely breaks that.
The unfortunate part is that the monopoly did pay for actual local reporting. But the ad supported business model for reports from city hall just isn't there any more in smaller cities.
- ghaff 5y agoAnd as you got into even smaller markets, local newspapers and reporting was always a shaky business. My town had a rather good local paper for a number of years but it was pretty much a labor of love and the publisher became ill and it shut down. Now, it's hard to find out about just about anything going on in town outside of Facebook and Nextdoor.