Originally Posted by
ohmark
I'd be lost without either one. As dayone said, they're complementary.
Unfortunately, here in Detroit, the full newspapers (the News and the Free Press) are published and home-delivered only on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. Much smaller editions are published other days, but not home-delivered. The scandal that cost Kilpatrick his job as mayor and some jail time only came to the fore because of the dogged pursuit of the story by both newspapers. Very doubtful that internet media would have produced the same results.
years ago as I was being transferred around I went to the habit of reading papers online, before then I read the paper daily regardless of which city I lived in....the advantage this gave me was I was not able to once again read the News (and occasionally the Freep) plus a few others....some papers have decent business sections (News) and some have eh sections (could name a few but I wont)...but in this example I was able to read how our Hometown Mayor messed things up without living in the Metro area....I dont believe I missed a thing by reading it on the internet however the real question (which you do mention) is if the print media can make a profit in cyberspace