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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

The print media is tanking because young people don't subscribe to newspapers, the internet has gutted newspaper revenues from classified advertising, and the American public does not want to pay for news or engage in the practice of reading.

I just forked out $296.00 for my yearly Baltimore Sun subscription because I don't want to see the city's one paper fail. (We used to have three newspapers when I was a child.)

The fourth estate is in bad shape. Who is left to conduct investigative reporting and the gathering of hard news? (Its fucked up enough to think that Disney owns ABC and controls its news desk. The Tribune Company, based outside of Baltimore owns the SUN.)

First the News American folded. Next the Evening Sun folded. After that, The Baltimore SUN closed all its foreign desks: LONDON, MOSCOW, ISREAL, etc. Then it cut staff. Then it downsized the size of the paper. Now, there's barely anything left in it to read.

My hope is that the Washington Post simply expands into BALTO and opens up a local bureau to report on local events.