{"id":1133,"date":"2007-03-11T15:45:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T22:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2007-03-11T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T22:45:40","slug":"the-death-of-printed-newspapers-the-sooner-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1133\/the-death-of-printed-newspapers-the-sooner-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death Of Printed Newspapers: The Sooner, The Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t care how printed newspapers die.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve read the pundit’s opinions on why they WILL die. Some of them make sense. Some of them don’t. Laurie Manny<\/a> even pointed out that the New York Times publisher is predicting the death of print<\/a>. I have a few opinions of my own I could add to the mix. But I don’t care.<\/p>\n

I only care that the printed newspaper SHOULD die, and sooner than later. Sulzberger’s five year prediction is too long for my taste. Why?<\/p>\n

\"newsprintLet me throw out some numbers. 38.9% of the waste stream in the United States is paper. (1<\/a>) Paper!<\/strong> How much of that total is newsprint? I have no idea. The newspaper industry certainly isn’t going to tell us, but let’s just consider this:<\/p>\n

Each and ever day in the USA, American’s trash 44 Million newspapers.<\/strong> (1<\/a>) Repeat that out loud and see how it rolls off the tongue. Does it feel good? I read that number and thought to myself, “Holy crap!” And here I thought the number of napkins wasted at In-N-Out<\/a> was a problem. It pales in comparison.<\/p>\n

In November, the latest numbers I could find, total newsprint consumption was 719,000 metric tons. Newspapers accounted for 567,000 tons of that usage. (2<\/a>) The way I was taught math, that’s 73%. It’s staggering.<\/p>\n

I’m not even going to go into the environmental impact of pulp mill production, or the energy savings that comes as a result of NOT producing the paper in the first place. If you’re interested, you can read more about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I haven’t purchased a printed newspaper in more than four years.<\/strong> I simply don’t have a reason to. I read newspapers online. The times I have picked a “real” newspaper up – on a seat next to me at the airport, or at my door in a hotel – my thought is always the same; I’ve already read about this<\/em>. I’m certainly not alone in this thought.<\/p>\n

What an incredible waste of natural resources.
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I was talking to my neighbor, Mike Whitman, about this and he said, “Well yes, that’s fine for you and me. I don’t Read more<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t care how printed newspapers die. I’ve read the pundit’s opinions on why they WILL die. Some of them make sense. Some of them don’t. Laurie Manny even pointed out that the New York Times publisher is predicting the death of print. 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