 maartenaElmoPremium
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Orange, CA
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| Most papers print AP/Reuters + their politcal views. Pretty much all papers these days just print stories that were submitted/sold to Asociated Press, and from international press agencies like Reuters, combined with articles which represents the political flavor of said paper.
Well, for AP and Reuters articles I can just start a web browser, and my political opinions don't need to be changed by a paper either.
What remains: GOOD local news with GOOD local reporting. That would be the ONLY reason to buy a newspaper subscription. And most newspapers are severely cutting their local journalists staff in favor of printing more AP articles.
When I get up in the morning, just like many others I grab a cup of coffee and read the news. Only I flip open a laptop at the kitchen table instead of a newspaper, which also allows me to PARTICIPATE in the news, such as what I am doing right at this very moment.
Papers are almost dead. If they still have value, they should keep to LOCAL news and LOCAL journalists that cover the area, and stop printing international news and political views we can get by the truckload for free.
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Amen to that. Local news is what DOESN'T have 10,000 results per story on Google. |
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Too many other sources of news for paywalls to work unless all the sources of online news got together and decided to erect paywalls at the same time. |
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