African American boy selling The Washington Daily News - sign on his hat reads, "Have you read The News? One cent" - headline reads "Millionaire tax rends G.O.P." 8 November 1921
If factual reporting is the thing that newspapers do best, why do they do so little of it?
I used to read newspapers every day. That fell off long before I found online sources of information. Newspapers today are entertainment, rarely a source for in-depth reporting.
Newspapers, like television news programs, decided quite a while ago that the attention span of their audience is too short to bother covering issues substantively.
Explain to me again why I should give a rat’s ass if newspapers fail?
