By Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA
Posted on November 8, 2009 at 12:11pm

What It Really Means When Cities Lose Their Newspapers

-- Veteran political writer Frank A. DeFilippo opines on Splicetoday.com:

"In Baltimore, the Sun — the last remaining major daily in a town which 25 years ago had three — lost 15 percent of its daily circulation and eight percent of its Sunday deliveries.

The Sun is not alone. The New York Times lost seven percent of its paid daily circulation and The Washington Post lost six percent of its paid readership. At the same time, Newsday has begun charging $5 a week for its online content.

There was a long-ago time, in the Mad Men era of the 1960s, when the Sun was ranked by Time, itself on the endangered list, as one of the top 10 newspapers in America. Today, the Sun, with an immediate metropolitan circulation area constituency of about three million, isn't even listed among the ABC's top 25 newspapers by circulation numbers.

Without newspapers, Oprah will reign and People magazine will set the American agenda. Think of a world of information dominated by Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and a few other screwballs who use their First Amendment rights to contaminate the news pool by conflating opinion with fact."

The full story:
http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/what-it-means-when-a-city-loses-its-paper

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