Subj : Re: Community
To   : apam
From : Spectre
Date : Sun Oct 02 2022 07:34:00

 sp> newspaper.. most don't do that either, and you can see that in the
 sp> poor circulation newspapers have these days.

 ap> I think that's because news is readily available on the internet for
 ap> free and newspapers can't compete, rather than any reading impairment the
 ap> youth of today may have.

 ap> I'd speculate on the quality of newspaper content and the relationship
 ap> with rupert murdoch, but that might be too political.

 I'm of the belief that most "youth" are severely impaired when it comes to
reading. They're to busy busting out the slang, and for the most part
comprehension skills seem to have fallen through the floor. Which is probably
also an indictment of the teaching system.

Not so sure you can blame the lot on Rupert.  My first job was in a news
agency, and even back then some 35 or more years ago, newspapers, specifically
the Herald Sun were already in trouble.  Readership dropping off year on
year. A lot of what was once profitable has had to be merged to maintain any
kind of economy of scale.

Spec


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