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A Sad Day for Newspapers

Clearly, the emergence of the Internet has put a bullet into the heart of a great number of newspapers. This is a paradigm shift that won't be reversed. There will always be newspapers but their hold on information is gone. Many will need to restructure their paper providing cheaper content for an ever smaller circulation. Foreign correspondents will be decimated while reliance on overseas AP reporting will grow ever larger. But in another way, newspapers are getting their just dessert for pursuing partisanship over news. It happens in so many ways. What to print, where to report it, and how often to run a story a particular topic is so much more about what any specific newspaper wants you to know and believe than what is newsworthy. The partisanship has peaked these last couple of years and so its appropriate that the wheels should be coming off the cart at this moment in time.

Newspaper Death Watch

Clearly, the emergence of the Internet has put a bullet into the heart of a great number of newspapers. This is a paradigm shift that won't be reversed. There will always be newspapers but their hold on information is gone. Many will need to restructure their paper providing cheaper content for an ever smaller circulation. Foreign correspondents will be decimated while reliance on overseas AP reporting will grow ever larger. But in another way, newspapers are getting their just dessert for pursuing partisanship over news. It happens in so many ways. What to print, where to report it, and how often to run a story a particular topic is so much more about what any specific newspaper wants you to know and believe than what is newsworthy. The partisanship has peaked these last couple of years and so its appropriate that the wheels should be coming off the cart at this moment in time.