{"id":24,"date":"2023-09-18T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zsoltr9.sg-host.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2023-10-19T17:56:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T17:56:35","slug":"poor-old-newspapers-are-headed-into-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/poor-old-newspapers-are-headed-into-the-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor old newspapers are headed into the dust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

But was the golden age really that golden? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no doubt that newspapers are dying. Employment at newspaper publishers has declined steadily since the World Wide Web sprouted in the 1990s, and the trend shows no sign of reversing.\u00a0Pressflex itself was launched in 1998, near the high point of the industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s not just competition from free, distracting or false information online. Except for the New York Times and Guardian, attempts to migrate content and audiences online have largely failed. And print,\u00a0 the delivery mechanism that its prime demographic prefers, is being destroyed by the rising expense \u2014 Labor shortages, aging equipment and raw materials.<\/a> “Adam Strunk, managing editor of Kansas\u2019s Harvey County Now, wrote a column in June stating that the costs of printing and mailing that weekly newspaper had soared by 42 percent in the past two years. Each copy cost $3.03 to print and produce while subscribers were paying $1.26, he wrote.” There\u2019s not a single newspaper press in Vermont.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there\u2019s no shortage of pundits bemoaning the civic effects of the death of the industry<\/a>.  \u201cResponsible journalism is the foundation of our collective ability to address our problems as a society: to improve \u201cthe common good,\u201d according to Eric Altman.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost areas that lose papers do not get a print or digital replacement, creating news deserts and \u2018crisis for our democracy,\u2019 a recent study showed.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, some journalists with a foot in the golden age<\/a> recall that there were lots of problems —sexism, racism, commercial biases, boosterism, cronyism, focus on feel-good, pollyanish.\u00a0Even the technology of newspapers often ruin good journalism. \u201cThis is a very frustrating game,\u201d one journalist wrote. \u201cYou won\u2019t be given enough time to go over a favorite piece \u2018one more time.\u2019 You will have to write with incomplete information. The printers, or layout man, or copy-cutter, or someone, will lose that critical, qualifying, third paragraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But was the golden age really that golden? There\u2019s no doubt that newspapers are dying. Employment at newspaper publishers has declined steadily since the World Wide Web sprouted in the 1990s, and the trend shows no sign of reversing.\u00a0Pressflex itself was launched in 1998, near the high point of the industry. It\u2019s not just competition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressflex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}