you couldn’t find another site to link to?

person my age(32) that I know of that has the paper delivered to his house-7 days a week. I’ve done this since graduating college.

I love the internet, for sites like this, but reading DMN online versus in-print is no contest. Maybe its nostalgia from having grown up in a house where the paper was on the coffee table every day of my life(amazingly my parents no longer take the paper at their house).

Coffee and the paper have just always gone better together for me than coffee and the internet(although I’m having my second cup of the day as I type this, with the first cup having been consumed while reading the paper.

On a second somewhat related thought, does anyone own or use Kindle, the Amazon digital book reader? This is another concept that has taken off that I just cant seem to get behind. I just cant imagine reading a book without a hard copy in my hands.

Why don’t papers consolidate. Say you have a handful of papers covering the national scene and they each insert local news covered by the local beat reporters. So you can get the USA Today with the DMN staff on local stuff inside. That would make newspapers like TV news. There are the national news staff and the local news on affiliates. It would be more efficient and save money which would make newspapers more competitive with other news outlets.

I’m mostly thinking from a sports angle. It seemed that newspapers’ first response to the internet and blogs was to just do more opinion type crap to incite their readers. I don’t believe that has accomplished anything except cause people to turn away from newspapers’ content more.

I think what they need to do is have reporter return to actually doing in-depth investigation and writing worth a crap. Remember – Barry Bonds steroid use was uncovered by the SF Chronicle looking past the surface. The reporters need to quit regurgitating whatever they get at a press or conference.

If newspapers return to the way of investigative journalism there should be information that’s valued by their readers. The Wall Street Journal is actually increasing readership by providing unique knowledge. Quit relying on the AP and do your job.

Seems that the introduction of USA Today and the idea that every story needs to be dumbed down to one sentence is a paragraph, and five paragraphs is a story, all written so a 5th grader could easily comprehend every article didn’t work out so well for the industry.