What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake?

Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by programminggeek on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:44PM (#12736909)

I think the problem is a simple assumption - people will leave the print version of My Local Journal and go to mylocaljournal.com when in fact they go from My Local Journal to Buzzfeed or the Yahoo! homepage or Google News or Twitter or Facebook or RSS of their 10 favorite blogs etc...

For example, I don't have a newspaper. I also don't check the local newspaper website. My wife, friends, relatives don't seem to either. The entirety of local news is mostly ignored.

And yet, we are fine. So, is all of that news necessary or important to our lives? As it turns out, no.

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Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by matt4077 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @10:18PM (#12740491)

The problem with that is that well-informed citizen are necessary for the functioning of a democracy. You can't make decisions without information.

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Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by poshli on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @08:45PM (#12740039)

Let's revisit this thread on January 20, 2017!

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Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by JKCalhoun on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:56PM (#12739087)

> So, is all of that news necessary or important to our lives? As it turns out, no.

Or not yet, anyway.

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