The Future of Newspapers...There Isn't One

Over the last week or so there has been a lot of talk about why the newspaper business is doing so poorly. Obviously they have an old model.

My wife and I get our local newspaper (Dayton Daily News), on Thursdays and Sundays. But how much do we read of it? Not much. We subscribed to it because we wanted the ads. The sections I look at the most are 1. the classifieds (out of curiosity) and 2. the Sunday Real Estate section (we'd like to buy a house soon).

Does that mean I don't read anything in the paper? Not exactly. I skim over the headlines at breakfast. But there isn't much to read about. Half of the articles are from the Associated Press. The ones that aren't? Not exactly the best writing in the world, or on topics that I am especially interested in.