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Sign of the Times

A larger city here went from a printed subscription of 70,000 plus prints a day 7 days a week. They are down to around 7,000 Tuesday thru Saturday.

My small town had a Mon-Sat print not sure if number yjen is 8,000.
Then they went to a Tuesday-Sat and they merged with anothwr local town both are separate but printed at the second town 25 mikes away. now it’s Tue-Sat and while they try sadly it’s a shell of what it use to be and I have seen better quality from High School newspaper ls in the early 80’s



It won’t be king it will be 100% digital for everyone
 
With the invention and proliferation of the modern internet, there really is no need for newspapers, magazines, flyers, etc. Maybe small town newspapers may still survive, maybe the sale ads in the stores may continue, but there is no need for a newspaper or magazines in the modern information age. A lot of these things can be replaced with Digital Printers. Offset printing is a dying art, and the demand on hours and working holidays are some of the reasons I got out of Offset and stayed in Flexo. As Digital Printing becomes more affordable for companies, and allows them to hire at a lower wage than those of us who still know the craft, Flexo will also become obsolete. The Journeyman Pressman will become a thing of the past. AI, robotics, automation, digitization will never replace Plumbers, Electricians, Welders, HVAC, Carpenters, Construction, etc. At least, not in our lifetime. Had I known then what I know now, I would have not gone into the Printing field, and instead become a Plumber, Electrician, etc. Hindsight, unfortunately, is 20/20. I don't regret my choice of profession, I mourn the loss of that profession. It has, however, given me the skills and knowledge to open doors for me in other industries. While I know I will be fine, I will survive, it hurts my heart to see these things happening. I guess I now know why our grandparents and Old Salts felt the way they did and told us that they were sad to see things changing the way they were. We gave them the old trope "everything changes, nothing ever stays the same. Change can be a good thing" not understanding where they were coming from. We took things for granted, just as I am sure they did when they were younger, and listening to their grandparents.
 
Cyberspace communication seems to be a prudent and efficient, but I wonder about some aspects of it, when considering the future, such as externally manipulated content in route to the receiver and historical archiving. If humans survive the next two thousand years, will our electronic history survive as the dead sea scrolls and countless ancient and medieval parchments have? The ancients left their history for us. We should do the same.
 
From a strictly legal POV, actual printed work holds more clout with the courts. Essentially anyone can "publish" online, whereas printed media requires more. Tell the court you read it online and dont expect much credibility.

I remember a time when there were two newspapers in Baltimore Md. The News American and the Baltimore Sun. The Sun was the more liberal of the two. When the News American closed, we were left with the Sun and look at Maryland now.
 
SimonRL said:
I just print off @Annihilator ’s comments and use that.
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