State of the News(papers)
Newspapers have been important personally and nationally. I've worked for newspapers and read them avidly.
Lately, folks I talk to complain about the paper they read shrinking and still having to pay a lot for the hard copy of the "news". The number of hard print subscribers has shrunk and is continuing to shrink in big towns like Chicago and even the statewide newspapers that report on what is happening in the state capital.
In 1987 the paid circulation of newspapers in the U.S. was 62.82 million papers. In 2018 the paid circulation in the U.S. had dropped to 28.62 million papers according to Amy Watson of Statista.
Now for the last two weekends the print edition of the Miami Herald has not been delivered. My upstairs neighbor and I used to get the paper delivered to the front door (upstairs) she seven days a week and me on the weekends. I found her paper outside in the parking area of our building on Sunday, mine was missing or stolen. When the news stand price is about $5.00 on Sunday and $2.00 daily I wouldn't put it past an early morning walker to just pick up a paper thinking it had just been dropped from the carrier vehicle.
Lately, folks I talk to complain about the paper they read shrinking and still having to pay a lot for the hard copy of the "news". The number of hard print subscribers has shrunk and is continuing to shrink in big towns like Chicago and even the statewide newspapers that report on what is happening in the state capital.
In 1987 the paid circulation of newspapers in the U.S. was 62.82 million papers. In 2018 the paid circulation in the U.S. had dropped to 28.62 million papers according to Amy Watson of Statista.
Now for the last two weekends the print edition of the Miami Herald has not been delivered. My upstairs neighbor and I used to get the paper delivered to the front door (upstairs) she seven days a week and me on the weekends. I found her paper outside in the parking area of our building on Sunday, mine was missing or stolen. When the news stand price is about $5.00 on Sunday and $2.00 daily I wouldn't put it past an early morning walker to just pick up a paper thinking it had just been dropped from the carrier vehicle.
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