The Decline of the Great American Newspaper

My father likes his Sunday. Coaches games, trains to catch up, and no children going to school. Even before my mother got the first cup of coffee (which was itself a feat), he got up and left in front of our other people and went out to start his morning I started with a truck. The place he first dropped in was always a garbage dump, and he broke the traffic and confusion that came late that day. His second stop is our local grocery store, Village Market. Here, if necessary, if you feel like a bottle of Hornstra chocolate milk, you usually pick up bagels of bagels.

According to editors and publishers of American newspaper industry magazines, the number of American daily newspapers may have decreased in the past half century due to competition with other media. In particular, the number of evening publications has decreased by nearly half since 1970, but the number of editions of morning and Sunday are also increasing. The main sources of income for newspaper income are ads in the form of "rearranging advertisements" or "inserting advertisements" and are not circulated. However, since the late 1990's, this revenue source has been challenged directly by sites such as eBay (used product sales), Monster.com (work), Craigslist (all).

The average American family currently continues to play television over 7 hours a day, so the time spent reading the newspaper is greatly reduced. In 1940, newspapers were distributed in the United States every two adults, but newspapers were distributed every three adults by 1990. According to the survey, the proportion of adults reading "newspaper ready for yesterday" decreased from 73% in 1946 to 73% in 1985 to 55% in 1985. According to a survey, only 8.9% of Americans answered that the Persian Gulf War news, mainly following newspapers. Evening news was brought home to provide nightly entertainment at an American home, and the competition against their television was particularly strong and they disappeared in many big cities.

Since 1950, the number of newspaper readers became slower than the population. Since 1990, the number of readers began to decline. Especially in the afternoon when the newspaper collapsed in the face of TV news, the number of papers also decreased. However, advertising sales are still strong, and profits are still high. Advertising revenue for newspapers in 2002 was $ 44 billion. According to market research company Morton Research, the average pre-tax margin of 13 listing newspapers in 2003 was 19%.

Through the 19th century, news organizations, especially daily newspapers, continued to grow and raised controversy. Several innovations brought down the cost of the newspaper. Transition to the steam press was the emergence of "Penny press" in the 1930s and the launch of newspaper paper (making paper from wood pulp instead of cloth) newspaper production cost was further reduced in the 1960s. On the eve of the Civil War, there were 4,000 newspapers and periodicals in this country, three-quarters of which were party publications. Many of them are firmly opposed to President Lincoln, which New York Tribune publisher Horace Gray appealed to him as "almost as troubling as the whole South Confederation."