This is a little like the chicken or the egg... Dying Newspapers

[liberal N proud]

Only we know what came first but the question as posed by this toon nails it...

[Buzz Clik]

1. Indeed. And for local news? "Tune it at 11 for all the latest news." Good luck with that.

[Warpy]

2. The press is thriving overseas

so if you can read languages besides English, you'll still get a clue what's going on.

A few of them even produce English editions for us American blockheads.

Media consolidation has already killed a lot of papers by turning them into McPapers, pulling stories right off the AP wire and dumping their local investigative reporters so papers tend to be exactly the same except for the weather report and high school sports scores. Advertising to print ratio has gone up so far that the main thing worth reading in a lot of those "local" papers is the sale adverts.

The net didn't kill them off. Consolidation did.

[Chemical Bill]

3. It's the lying.

If they weren't lying I'd still be buying.

Bill