Mainstream media, and in particular newspapers, have been facing increasing competition from low cost online news and information sources. The old monopoly that the print media had on op-ed articles has been broken by blogs already. The newspapers cannot compete with a medium whose cost matches its production - zero dollars. Newspapers, both print and online, have been trying to keep their viewers through tabloidisation. Cheap sensationalism is a valid marketing method, but not one which produces quality discourse.
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