Are newspapers and network news dying off?

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Media analyst Bob Knight says the newspaper industry has experienced its most substantial drop in advertising revenue in more than half a century.

"The reason for the great drop in revenue is there are so many competing sources now, and we're changing as a society to build our own information sources," explains Knight. "People are going to the web more and more. In effect, he says, that frees up consumers from their dependence on a single source of information that has been biased over the years.

Knight compares the mainstream media -- old-line newspapers and broadcast networks -- to a "big dragon that's been wounded" and is still "flailing around" and doing a lot of damage because of its liberal bias.
 
Both the newspapers and networks report total garbage. You want the real news you have to look elsewhere.
They want to keep us in the dark.
Both sources are tilted to the far right
 
yes that is true,.....an example is the New York Times,.....the subscriptions are dropping, some say because the people are tired of getting the news with a leftest spin on it,.....
 
The ad revenue drop is significant, but newspapers have been losing circulation consistently since the '80s, and the number of daily papers in the US has been in a pretty steady decline since the early 1960s. It's not a question of newspapers dying off; that's a fact.

Network news has certainly lost ground since cable Balkanized television, but the network news programs are still around.

Online news is certainly poised to dominate for the future, but it's a question of what the source of that online news will be - whether newspapers abandon print entirely, if journalists become more freelance than staff, and so on.
 
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