Why do people care about an obviously dead way to bring information to people? Did indoor light stop when oil burning lanterns went out of favor?

I feel for the guy who works at the printing press, but he had to see this coming for years now. The journalists are unaffected. Or should be. Their work is still delivered to whoever wants to read it.

A decade from now there will be zero paper news being delivered anywhere in the world. Followed shortly by books. But there will still be a wealth of information and stories to read.

I don’t have much sympathy for old people who don’t want to change with the times. And I’m an old people.
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I’m of the age to be considered a child of the digital generation. I have multiple mobile devices on which I do my reading. I’m also a New Yorker who commutes about 30 minutes underground on a daily basis.

None of my devices receive a signal when I’m on the train. Sure, I use ReadItLater for sites or just download a book before heading into the station, but when I hear someone talking about a free agent signing or a trade that took place the night before, I can’t look it up on my tablet or phone to get the details.

My parents are much older than I am and I read a physical paper much more than they do because of logistics not because of age.

Then you also have to take into account those who cannot afford a mobile device and its associated data plan. If you have a phone, you’re probably not too worried about it since you’re already paying that price anyway. But what if you don’t want to read on a phone or you simply can’t? Data service for a tablet can be quite costly. Much more costly than the 50 cents a day it costs for someone to purchase a paper. Let’s also not forget that the digital content is not always free either. That just adds onto the cost.

Why do people care about an obviously dead way to bring information to people? Did indoor light stop when oil burning lanterns went out of favor?

I feel for the guy who works at the printing press, but he had to see this coming for years now. The journalists are unaffected. Or should be. Their work is still delivered to whoever wants to read it.

A decade from now there will be zero paper news being delivered anywhere in the world. Followed shortly by books. But there will still be a wealth of information and stories to read.

I don’t have much sympathy for old people who don’t want to change with the times. And I’m an old people.

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Except the realities of the market do support it. I think if you did a little research of the profit margins of newspapers you would know that. You would also know that FCC deregulation means that big media conglomerates can buy out local papers, strip-mine them and leave them for dead. And we wonder why true journalism is dying in this country.

PS – You should probably be aware that the TP was not the only paper caught up in these cuts. Advance Publications which owns the TP did the same thing in Mobile and at least two other of their sites.

Daily printed newspapers are a thing of the past, and the sooner the Who Dat 1% like Archie Manning accept the fact, the sooner the whining stops.