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The Great Disruption: Newspapers versus New Media
- ggchappell 18y ago> ... a century ago most U.S. cities (about 689) had more than one daily newspaper. Today fewer than 15 cities have competing papers. Yes, but the reasons behind that huge shift are probably irrelevant to the point the article is making. A century ago, any sizable town in the U.S. would have had a Republican newspaper and a Democrat newspaper. The big cities also had Socialist newspapers, etc. But somewhere in the intervening decades the market changed, and people began expecting newspapers to be less overtly partisan. Thus, we saw mergers all over the country, which is why large parts of the U.S. are now full of newspapers with hyphenated names. This was an interesting phenomenon, and I would like to learn more about why it happened. However, it appears to me that this has little to do with the recent severe decline in newspaper revenues.
- mjfern 18y agoThe point I was making was that despite newspapers facing little or no local competition from other traditional newspapers they are still struggling financially.
- ggchappell 18y agoAh, I see. I missed that.