R. Richard Schweitzer

Buffett: I Wouldn't Buy Newspapers 'At Any Price'

Missing from consideration :

Much of the information regarded as "news," no longer has much significance or "use" to the individual member of the U S public.

Much of the content presented in the print media (and in much of the TV network media) is no longer information (observed facts) . The content has become "contructs" to influence audience conduct (holding viewer or listener attention, e.g.).

The evolution and declines of periodicals (magazines) has tracked the demographics of American "reading patterns."

Printing by "printers" (who originated "papers" from "broadsides") will continue in geographic, economic and social areas where the audiences (such as a school campus) provide reception. However, "printers" will be expanded to include other modes of making words and pictures available to those for whom they may have some use.

Others can probably expand on these observations with examples from radio (oral information), Email exchanges, etc.