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Originally Posted by 4X4
I think it's funny that TV news has failed to remain relevant even though print media survived their onslaught. Obviously I wasn't around in the 30s and 40s and 50s when TV started to become the source for news, but you'd think that the advantage they had over print (potentially up-to-the-minute) would have been enough to entrench themselves into the average home. Not so. Internet has eliminated TV news' usefulness and print media remains because of portability.
Honestly, does anyone watch the evening news anymore? If so, why? Click on google news, or better yet, CP and you'll be linked to everything that's happening. And if you really want to watch television news, there are an abundance of news channels that just loop all day and night. Who actually tunes in at 6pm to hear about stuff that you already read about before leaving the office?
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Print media is going down the tubes. Rocky Mountain News shut their doors earlier this year, The Boston Globe is on death's door just for 2 major examples.
Look at the newspaper business in Canada. Almost all the papers are owned by a few companies. There was a time when every major city newspaper would send a reporter to parliament hill. Now a few reporters cover it and their stories get printed in multiple newspapers.
Until someone figures out how to get people to pay for their news through the internet somehow, there are going to be fewer and fewer people paid to gather news stories.
The internet has become a hugely disruptive technology. I don't know what the answer might be, but things are going to change.