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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Far fewer people read a newspaper or an online alternative today than 30 years ago.
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As they say on Wikipedia, [citation needed]. I suspect you would find widely varying numbers on that, depending on what exactly is counted as an ‘online alternative’. To the newspaper industry, for instance, only an online newspaper subscription would count.
Let's also not forget that the newspaper industry used to deliver thousands of unpaid subscriptions to artificially boost their circulation numbers (and therefore advertising rates). The New York Times did it, for crying out loud. It no longer pays them to hand out free papers every day – but it would be a stretch to say that the people who received those particular copies actually read them.