Newspapers

Newspapers have ridden a crest for years and now they are at a cross roads. My own personal opinion is they are suffering because we have lost literacy skills. You have to have a capacity to read and an appreciation of it to want to get a newspaper. Then they have fallen foul of this news package which is the same year in , year out and it is basically negative, destructive, unwholesome and disturbing. People are avoiding that . No one wants to read the same vile stories and the same pattern of behaviour in a different venue. We know the scenarios. So newspapers are rarely contributing to what sustains us as humans...creativity, imagination and hope. The balance is gone. Should they charge for online content I don't think it will improve anything because you come back to those issues which stop readers reading...assuming you have people who can read. Solving the newspaper problem is bigger than reformatting or regrouping newspapers. It's a fundamental societal shift which needs addressing.