Media is dying because of consolidation. My local town newspaper used to employ 400-600 people, and have a big building downtown. Since we are a capital city, it had great coverage of government, politics, etc. It got bought by USA Today, and now my newspaper has 15 or so employees, all printing is done at their other local newspaper they bought and gutted 60 miles south, and our newspaper consits of 3-4 articles a day of actual, local content, and then a bunch of AP and USA today syndicated stories.

They also raised the prices for the papers, and wonder why people are stopping their subscriptions.