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When did you last read a print newspaper? (Me, I can't remember.)
- kineticac 18y agoInteresting article about newspapers, but touches on bigger issues of media in general. With real time media that you can access for modern gadgets that are almost always accessible, there's going to be a constant decrease in need for a paper based media. The only reasons for them would be in situations where gadgets are not usable, such as no wireless capabilities, running out of batteries on long flights and such. Will those situations alone save printed media? At some point it won't be, and we'd just live with the fact that we need to download news to read ahead of time, or get some outlets on all the seats in an airplane ;)
- HeyLaughingBoy 18y agoThis morning. I don't live in an incorporated town, but I get the (free) newspaper for the town closest to me: population about 8,000. I don't think they're going online-only anytime soon. This may be where newspapers end up: serving very small markets with limited circulation but still enough to sustain their advertising base. In return I get very targeted local news: e.g., the county is planning to pave the dirt road that intersects the one I live on within the next three years. I actually read the paper because the news is quite relevant to me, as opposed to what's important to the most common denominator of a large number of people in a 1MM+ metropolitan area.