Newspapers' future difficult – but indispensable - Durham Herald Sun
And by newspapers, I mean particularly those physical objects produced in huge quantity through some nearly magical process in the middle of the night and delivered before daybreak to millions of American homes and businesses where they are... At most American newspapers, they draw heavily upon the resources — financial, human and journalistic — of the business that our smug critics like to deride as "mature," or "legacy" or "dying. " You hear that line so often that even some of our most loyal fans start to feel a little sheepish that they still want the ink-on-paper version of what we do. "I know I'm in the minority," they sometimes tell me. Except they are not in the... According to the Pew Research Center and its annual report on the news media, more than half of all newspaper readers rely entirely on the printed version. Anybody who says "nobody reads newspapers anymore" has never spent a Sunday morning in a circulation phone room after a bad storm, or a breakdown in the pressroom or a big college football game that went into overtime. I believe in newspapers for their power to connect merchants with customers. Here in the Tampa Bay area, the No. 1 Ford dealer sells as many vehicles as the next. Source: www.heraldsun.com
