Internet use could kill off local newspapers, study finds

News audiences are ditching television and newspapers and using the Internet as their main source of information, in a trend that could eventually see the demise of local papers, according to a new study Wednesday.

"As online use has increased, the audiences of older media have declined," Harvard University professor Thomas Patterson said in a report on the year-long study issued by Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

"In the past year alone... newspaper circulation has fallen by three percent, broadcast news has lost a million viewers," said the study, entitled "Creative Destruction: An Exploratory Look and News on the Internet."

Meanwhile, the numbers of people using the Internet as a news source have increased -- exponentially, in some cases.

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Think about all the trees that are being saved. I don't feel so guilty about driving my SUV any more. The amount of time I spend on the internet neuralizes the carbon foot print of my Envoy.

 

That's the real problem. News happens fast and the paper news source can't really compete with today digital media. By the time the Newspaper gets it printed and distributed, it's already old news. Where newspapers have the advantage over internet news is the details, and better reporting. Like Cybergal said, the websites have the headlines, and you read the article, but sometimes you feel like you're missing some of the details of the story, and if you read the sources of the websites it's normally comming from a printed news source.