A Further Nail In the Coffin of Paper Media

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In the past couple of years I started subscribing to the print (and digital) edition of the Wall Street Journal.  While traveling, I used to love buying the WSJ or The Economist in the airport.  Of the two reasons I switched hotels in the winter while staying in Waukegan, Illinois, was that the Courtyard Marriott had a jacuzzi…and you got a free WSJ.



When on a client site in Greensboro, NC I cheapened it up to put my expense money in my pocket, but a coworker with a subscription would bring be the paper for me while he only wanted the online version (Thanks again John).  But lately I've noticed that when eating in a restaurant lately that if you leave a newspaper on a table or at the tray/trash for someone else to read, it's going to be thrown in the trash quicker than you can say Business & Finance.  Fast food employees and people in general don't seem to have an appreciation for leaving a paper that has only been briefly looked at for other customers.  The only place that it seems that second-hand papers survive is in breakfast places with an older clientele à la Biscuitville.  The younger generation that only has ever read news on a smartphone can't appreciate a free $4 paper like a person who only owns a "stupid phone" as by father-in-law says.



Kind of painful to see that something I really appreciate and really debate spending my money on, is seen as dirty or has no value above.  I used to see ads for the Wall Street Journal on daytime TV in the 80's.  $37 a month.  I thought "man that is expensive."  Right now if you pay monthly it's $36/week.  How's that for inflation?



It's hard to value a well written and researched article when all you've known is a five sentence headline and paragraph with a click bait ad stuck in the middle, nor do you have the patience to read such an in-depth article to learn something that you may have not known that you wanted to know.

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