Just keep in mind that paper and the internet are only communication venues.
The news, good bad or indifferent, has not stopped.
This is hardly the first time a communication venue has lost "utility" due to changing technologies.
We used to write our stuff on papyrus and blocks of stone also... but things move on.
The advantage of "old" print media was access. For many years, in many towns, the only thing you could get was the local paper or perhaps a paper from a nearby city. Hence the market for individual print media.
Limited access created a business area.
Now with the advent of not only airmail but the internet, I can get pretty much any paper in the country (if I want to pay extra) or hop onto the Internets Tubes and get news from around the world. Local news is, in many cases, published on respective webpages (all I need is the right number).
So I guess it is sad that an obsolete communication venue is going out of business. But it was also sad when the buggy factories went out of business too.
I wonder how many of these small newspapers could have stayed in business if they switched from representing the community on paper to representing the community electronically?
The attitude of "well we have always been a newspaper" may not be such a good business model in the 21st century.
For myself, I have not bought a newspaper in about 10 years. I can get more news, from more sources using the Internets Tubes than I could ever get from a newspaper.
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Now if I can only figure out a way to wrap a dead fish in a webpage.......
