Imagine Life Without The Daily Newspaper
Can you imagine the High Desert without the Victor Valley Daily Press? Or San Bernardino without the San Bernardino Sun?
If recent trends continue, we may not have to.
The newspaper industry is in crisis now. For instance, in Denver the Rocky Mountain News has ceased operations completely. This paper had been in existence for over 100 years. In Seattle, the Seattle Post Intelligencer has switched from print to internet-only. In Boston, the parent company of the prestigious Boston Globe has threatened to shut it down.
Even the venerable New York Times itself has been suffering unprecedented budget shortfalls.
Closer to home, the San Bernardino Sun has instituted furloughs while the Riverside Press Enterprise has shuttered its 909 bureau and laid off reporters and photographers.
There is even a website devoted to the collapse of the newspaper industry. Paper Cuts, a blog devoted to covering the problems affecting the newspaper industry. See it here: http://graphicdesignr.net/papercuts/
What the continuing turmoil in the news industry means is unclear. But with former newspaper readers now able to gather their information from a variety of media – 24-hour television news, internet, blogs, social networking sites like Twitter, it is obvious something has to change in the industry.
Here in the High Desert, will the Victor Valley Daily Press survive? Time will tell. But if current trends continue, the newspaper industry as we have known it will only get bleaker and bleaker.
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ReplyDeleteIf the Daily Press would start printing the truth and get ride of Steve Williams and get a decent political page that welcomes all letters to the editor and doesn’t change peoples letters to fit Mr. Williams point of view t If the Daily Press would start printing the truth and get ride of Steve Williams and get a decent political page that welcomes all letters to the editor and doesn’t change peoples letters to fit Mr. Williams point of view they Might have a chance of making it as a paper otherwise their doomed to extinction. The Daily Press treats its readers like there Stupid. Well I don’t read there trash any more. The Sun is an exilent Paper and is a fine example of True Journalism. My mistake was not getting the Sun twenty Seven Years ago when I moved to the High Desert.hey Might have a chance of making it as a paper otherwise their doomed to extinction. The Daily Press treats its readers like there Stupid. Well I don’t read there trash any more. The Sun is an exilent Paper and is a fine example of True Journalism. My mistake was not getting the Sun twenty Seven Years ago when I moved to the High Desert.
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