As many newspapers struggle to stay economically viable, fewer than half of Americans (43%) say that losing their local newspaper would hurt civic life in their community "a lot." Even fewer (33%) say they would personally miss reading the local newspaper a lot if it were no longer available.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1147/newspapers-struggle-public-not-concerned
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People are pathetic.
Newspapers watchdog the local government, the local law enforcement, etc. People on their own won't hold public officials accountable without local journalists.
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