In a message dated 2/28/2009 11:56:43 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I disagree. The major factors in the decline of newspapers come down to news cycle (Internet and TV is faster), Craigslist (which killed off classifieds, long a major portion of newspaper income), the effective change of the mainstream media into a mild-left monoculture (thus reducing their target audience) and the shift from local newsrooms to wire agencies for much of their content, resulting in a lack of local news (always the newspapers advantage over TV) combined with a concentration on news that is best delivered in other ways (and often heavily slanted due to the wire services reliance on local stringers often under the thumb of local political powers). Newspapers are dying because they quit providing a quality product while also having part of their business model evaporate and annoying a reasonable portion of the market.
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