Pundits galore explore the crisis in the news industry daily, posturing and pontificating on the problems and what might be done to fix them. These things I know:
It's a sad, sad day for a community when a newspaper that has been family owned and firmly staked in its readership area moves into the corporate world. No matter anyone's personal feelings about what caused the downfall, it's heartbreaking.
Circulation continues to fall at many papers.
Of the few newspapers that posted circulation increases in the past six months, at least two of them are conservative -- ultra conservative -- as in the Deseret News and the Wall Street Journal.
People across the country will tell you they "don't read" newspapers yet they listen to the radio and read Web sites such as Yahoo and Google News. Where in the heck do they think all that news comes from? Does it materialize out of thin air? Absolutely not. Most of it begins in the notebook of a newspaper journalist, who's still devoted to the craftsmanship of turning information into news stories.
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