Eavesdropping on a conversation among a few small newspaper owners who are seeing a resurgence in subscribership to their physical publications, I can't help but think that this is a trend worth paying some attention.
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any data analyst here that could look up trends of physical copies compared to digital in the last 10 years in states
could just ask gpt, but i don't know if i trust it enough for that
The most recent public statistics I'm finding are from 2022, which seems completely irrelevant to live time observations of weekly activity.😅 I am no data analyst though, just a curious person.
oh. that's interesting as they've been on serious decline for many years. i wonder why?
probably the severe increase in epileptic ads
my local newspaper started showing Meta AI articles on the online edition a few weeks ago. i only noticed because they started showing up in my google news. i haven't bought a local newspaper in 20 years and i only read online articles a few times a year.
I'm unsure, from what I could gather they seemed to think it's a combination of content relevance and difficulty navigating the digital versions. I'm wondering if uncertainty in what's real or not real is playing a factor.
I am aware this could be a relatively local trend... I'm quite curious if it is or not.
