Home delivery is a thing of the past. If it wasn’t delivered to people’s doorsteps (sometimes for free) I wouldn’t think many people would make a DAILY habit of picking up the newspaper anymore.
The news is 16-52 hours old when it hits your doorstep. In an age when even the newspapers put their content online 16-24 hours before the next edition comes out, who wants to read “old” (and outdated) news “information”?
The milkman no longer makes home deliveries and doctors don’t even make routine house calls.
Groupon and marketing mail have replaced the coupon cutting. Craigslist and ebay have replaced the for-sale ads. Simply Hired/Monster/Dice/CareerBuilder/Craigslist et al have replaced the Help Wanted ads. So much for the ad revenue.
Add to this a boycott by those on the right who are tired of their newspapers/news magazines/and news broadcasts manipulating evidence, redacting quotes, and otherwise deliberately manufacturing and modifying news as determined by those on Journolist and in coordinated discussions with members of the Democrat Party.
So long. No bailouts, pinkos.
That is true and it is a shame. I would still enjoy sitting at the breakfast table, drinking coffee and reading the sports section written by local sports writers. The Patriot News was even able to get that right - the local sports writers are not originally from the area.