Newspapers See Writing On the Wall --Cagle

Conventional thinking dictates that small, local newspapers will continue to flourish because they will address a niche that the Internet ignores: local news. For a while, I believed this to be true. Now, I see newspapers crumbling in succession, the process expedited by the economy. Within five to seven years, barring a major game turner, the U.S. paper will be pushed to the brink of extinction. It won’t go away completely, but its impact on American society will be severely marginalized.