Newspapers, nothing really new afterall

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100256908
This is an interesting NPR podcast/article. It is about one of Americas oldest newspapers in Hartford, Connecticut. The idea of the article is exactly what we have been talking about. There are two people mentioned one a smart professional who turns to the internet to get a new job. The second is an old timer who looks at the newspaper front and back for his new job. The main problem the article poses is that the newspaper is losing money and having trouble competing with other medias, much like all newspapers. What they argue is that if they lose their LOCAL newspaper, then they will be losing a sense of community. A man states that the community will be out the window if they have people online just looking through a 100 different articles a day.

What do you think?? Is this community what really makes us Americans? Don't we and can't we live without it??

RSS the last nail in the coffin holding the newspaper.

RSS is possibly the best tool for sifting the tons of cluttered irrelevant information that exists on the internet. Newspaper readership has steadily declined with the invention of the internet. Now that newspapers have shifted their focus to the internet there remains one last problem. Where to put the advertising????
We see them put it in front of the CNN video clips, which we are forced to watch. But the others are just easily ignored on the side of the screen, even the pulsating ones. Pop-up blocker already came.
Now comes RSS, a trick still only practiced by a small percent, however deadly. RSS feeds are the cement on top of the coffin, this almost ultimately eliminates advertisements meant for newspapers. The person who solves this problem will be the richest man/woman in the world.