Newspapers are in a death-spiral, and it may be too late to recover :( I've been reading the paper in full since I was 10, and I've had a subscription my entire adult life. I don't watch tv news, and I really don't read the news on the web either. But the Chicago Tribune has over the years shrunk in size from a paper that I could barely finish on my morning commute, to one that doesn't get me halfway home (I take the train).

In the process they've cut my favorite comics (I now have a subscription to Go Comics), the weekly columnists I most enjoyed, decimated the business section, moved the editorials to after the obituaries!!!, and eliminated most of the weekly special items. But the gossip page is longer (and in the main section) and there sure are more (and larger) photos these days..... /sigh And my sub cost hasn't gone down, so I'm starting to wonder what I'm paying for. It's not really worth my monthly chit if I'm also buying more magazines to have enough to read each day.

I dread the day of government without a working, paid media (after all, what will the bloggers and reprint newssites do when the paid journalists whose articles they use as source material are all fired), but I don't think the newspaper as we know it is living through the current recession.

Serenya_Loredena

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