Many metropolitan daily newspapers have lost circulation and shutdown. It's true. And who is the culprit that is killing off these papers? Well, it would appear that the electronic media is holding the smoking gun. And we the people are the ones who loaded it. It is our lack of going out and buying the paper, subscribing to the daily news that has moved advertising money away from the print journalism and onto the web. The New York World and The New York Tribune just to name a few, have folded and gone under.
They call it "citizen journalism". Blogging has become a full on competitior with the big wig newspapers. Your everyday citizen can be just as active of a journalist as anyone these days. Many of the so called "real journalists" look down on this form of journalism claiming it isn't real journalism. But that doesn't change the fact that many people are going to these citizen journalists for their news which is hurting the metropolitan daily newspapers.
However on the local level, people seem to rather just get their news from the local paper. Most likely there is no one that blogs about little Timmy hitting the homerun at the t-ball game last weekend anyway, so there is no real competition for community papers. As to the real reason why local papers are booming I can't nail down one exact reason. Maybe there's just a lot of parents that love to see little Timmy's up and coming athletic abilities.
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