Interesting report just published by the Pew Research Center, showing that:
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.
These stats refer to both online and print availability. This is presumably the flip side of lack of trust in the media. If you don’t think they’re doing a valuable and useful job, why would you be bothered if they stopped – at least until all the unreported corruption and scandals happened.
