Am I number 1? Is this because I am up first.. no, my kids didn't awake till 7.. Mayhap it is because I care the most!

The only reason the newsprint media survives is advertising. Ad clients fully uderstand that apart from tv, radio and newsprint, nothing else exists that really and truly works in a traditional sense. popups are blocked, onsite ads are ignored as sites are for the most part very focussed. On your beer blog, I doubt you would sell much in the way of clicks on adult novelty sites.. well, maybe, but not on say ads for Bovine Bag Balm.. As newspapers are still read by the older folk and businesses stil buy them for sticking in waiting rooms and as some people buy papers because "I always have".. ad people still pay for space to sell their wares.

I have bought maybe three newspapers in two years. I find them full of ribbon cuttings, classifieds I never look at, moronic "family circus and marmaduke" comics and biased editorialized stories because nowadays editors cannot keep their ideals out of the writings of others.

I happily predict and await the death of print as a method of dispersing the news.

I forgot to say "killers of trees and users of energy and pumpers of chemicals even vegetable based ones (inks) into the ecosystem"..

Down with print.

So mote it be

I can't count the number of times I've seen outright factual misrepresentations in our local newspaper and in the Star. Makes you want to hire a fact-checker. Didn't they used to? At some point I'm sure they cared about such things...

Print is still relevant, but where was that 8-track player? The medium isn't 8-tracks, it's play-at-will recordings - that's still alive, even if it is in mp3 format. But newspapers as a format are still relevant only because internets aren't as easy to spread on the coffee table while you eat your toast, for the same reason that eBooks never caught on. But radio is still alive and well.

THerein lies another issue. Factual manipulation and error based on editorial bias connected to ad revenue.. i.e. A paper's bias because of who pays the bills. An unmentioned local paper's editorial policy on, oh, say, a local major project can esssentially be bought by those that pay the bills. A larger paper's editorial policy on oh, say a WAR or a national (or provincial as it were)issue or even a political party's actionsa in givernment, because of the larger size of scope of interests of "those that pay the bills" is again buy-able.. Hard to go against the grain of your cheque writers when your mere existance depends on their whims. Big paper buyable on big issues, small paper buyable on small issues.

Radio is more local and equally untrustworthy as a local paper however luckily in Canada, our national radio is funded publically and therefore does not rely on ads (and therefore more honest IMHO).

The net on the other hand can be the most honest or the most corrupt, depending in the course.