>
> The newspaper business seems to be in trouble all over the country.
>
When I was in high school I delivered one of the very last 5¢ daily
newspapers in the country "The York Dispatch".
>
> The Nashville Tenneseean no longer delivers to the home in our town, so
> we make do by buying a Sunday paper at the nearest convenience store.
> The local paper publishes 3 days a week. All of these have cut down
> the size of their pages, and stuff in as much advertising as possible.
>
When I moved here in 1979 there were four daily newspapers in Phoenix.
Now there's just one. Recently I was asked to get a copy of an article from
a 1906 edition, and I was surprised to see that almost half of each page,
except the front page, was advertising. Nothing changes.
>
> My wife watches the 10pm news on one of the Nashville channels, and we
watch
> BBC at times, to get some sense of world happenings.
>
During the Japanese earthquake, as well as the recent rioting in Britain
and also during the height of the activity in Lybia, I kept close watch on
the BBC online service. In all of those events they had 24-hour-a-day live
coverage.
>
> You are right, there is no simple solution.
>
Back again to when I was in high school, I kept track of world events by
way of shortwave radio. Now, many of those services are being shut down and
reverted to online internet services. But I still use the shortwave radio
when feasible.
Chris
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