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by rightbyte 373 days ago
I don't think it is social media though. It started to go downhill for newspapers when they put their news on the internet for free subsidized by their papers.
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> started to go downhill for newspapers when they put their news on the internet for free subsidized by their papers

To bolster this argument, the local papers that hard paywalled seem to have done just fine.