In an open letter to Buffet, columnist Dave Bradley, writing for the Aurora News-Register in Nebraska, disagrees, saying that rural newspapers provide a service to their communities unmatched by any other resource. "The way I see it, the News-Register is anything but toast. Take the weekly edition clean away and our community, our county, would literally be in the dark when it involves news, features, photos, editorials and so much more," Bradley writes. "Who else is going to cover all of our local sports teams, week in and week out, even when it’s 105 humid degrees in the summer time during Legion ball, to minus 25 degree wind chill a few years back on senior day during a Nebraska-Iowa football game?"
In The Canadian Record in Canada, Texas, editor and publisher Laurie Ezzell Brown agrees in her editorial that newspapers are struggling, but not because the work is less important or needed, but "because fewer people take time to read and think and be informed, because our collective sense of civic engagement is slowly eroding, and frankly, because the small businesses that support community newspapers are struggling, too, and that essential source of advertising revenue for newspapers is dwindling."
In other words, newspapers' decline is a symptom of larger problems. And, she notes, "if Buffet's assessment is right, you ain't seen nothing yet."
from The Rural Blog http://bit.ly/2IVgto8 Rural editorials respond to Warren Buffet's pronouncement that newspapers are 'toast' - Entrepreneur Generations
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