Stop the press! The future of US journalism

The Independent by Stephen Foley | Mar. 11, 2009 (Special Report)

It is 4 July 2009, Independence Day in the US, and there are fireworks online. A nation of internet users log on, click for their favourite newspaper sites to catch up on the weekend news, only to be stopped in their tracks. On website after website, the following message: "Dear reader. In order to save the newspaper industry and promote quality journalism, it has become necessary to begin charging a subscription for online access. Click here to enter your ... Full Story »

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Kenneth Sibbett
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 by Kenneth Sibbett - Mar. 11, 2009

If papers go the way of hula-hoops and marbles, what difference would it make. Everything dies in due time. My local paper, the News Reporter is doing great. What does it print. Local people who've been arrested. People who get tickets for speeding have their name in the paper. It just a gossip rag, but, it's local, and the locals love it. It comes out twice a week and people actually go to the newspaper office and buy it. Cars line up to spend five dollars in gas to get a fifty cent paper. I can't get a decent newspaper delivered, I have to drive eight miles every morning. Big-time papers are dead, They just need burying.

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