Lots of discussion around here about this in relation to the Washington Post, which is bleeding money along with all the other newspapers, and trying to find ways to stop it. I no longer get a dead tree version - read it online and have for quite awhile. As mentioned above, though, much of the news generated for the Web comes from reporting done for the printed paper. So it could be a real problem in the future. And charging for the online version has been problematic. Who knows what will happen?

 

Taking an Orwellian view for a moment I throw this out there for consideration.
Newspapers have been the backbone of investigative journalism for a very long time.
Take that away and where does the public gain the oversight of its political process?

 

Sound business model or not, I still enjoy the process on Sunday morning of sitting with my coffee and reading a real newspaper. The Orlando Sentinel is pitiful and actually contains little news any more. It seems to get thinner each week with only the ad inserts giving it any bulk at all. Sunday is the only day I actually take the time to do it, but I will miss the process when newspapers go the way of the wooly mammoth.

 

We have a typical small town "green acres" type newspaper. I switched to USA Today and still enjoy it. For local news (if there is any) I check out the local paper online.

 

[QUOTE=martha,Mar 12 2009, 08:15 AM] Sound business model or not, I still enjoy the process on Sunday morning of sitting with my coffee and reading a real newspaper.

 

I only read the Sunday paper, and that's mostly because of the flyer inserts and the classifieds.

Local news comes to me via local 24-hour cable news show, fantastic coverage. World and National news comes to me by TV as well, MSNBC and CNN Headline.

I have no love for newspapers, they can slowly die off as far as I'm concerned...

 

And as they die off, so do more jobs.

 

I saw one of the major Denver newspapers shut down last week.

Our local paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, is also in trouble and I think in Chapter 11.

The job market has affected them because the job section is down to a few pages every Sunday, and they've lost a lot of advertising revenue. Car dealers have also cut way back on advertising, of course.

 

It quit getting ours, it was bought by Gannet Press, and went down hill from there.

 

Yea, and millions of trees will be saved and there will be tons of nasty chemicals no longer forced into our environment.

There is more to think about than just jobs... Once our planet can no longer sustain life, having a job or not will become a mute point.