[Gondring]

The readers followed the newspapers online, but the advertisers did not.

A tactical victory for conservatism.

A strategic victory for liberalism.

America is becoming more and more illiterate, and the stories now have to be told in two paragraphs or less. Conservative papers are losing readership faster than liberal ones (e.g., The Washington Times vs. The Washington Post), and voters turned to sound bites and faux-news (e.g., The Daily Show) for their information.

With newspapers declining, the republic will follow.

[rwfromkansas]

Gondring makes an excellent point.

Conservative papers, such as the one I write for, are hurting just as much or even worse than liberal ones.

An illiterate populace is not good for this country. The Internet is the key problem. For places starting online, it is not an issue as much. I wish I was the very rich man who thought up the Drudge Report.

But, newspapers are still mostly print, and going online won’t change that. It is likely most subscribers would just go away and the paper would die.

[Mark was here]

Here we have the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News. The Free Press is the liberal rag the News a tad more conservative. I like the Freep better because the OP-ED is more conservative, and the News OP-ED is more liberal. Who wants to support the likes of that lesbian Deb Pierce?