Well, it may be a case of the chicken/egg then cause I religiously took the major (and local) paper in every town I was stationed in throughout my military career, but actually just last year, after writing to the editor on three different occasions that I refuse to pay high costs for a newspaper that basically just regurgitates the garbage that began being put out by the AP/UPI and had maybe 1/5 of the local content it used to. They always respond that they had budget cuts and let reporters go, which I would respond with then de-link from AP/UPI, and truly become a "local" news paper, but I refuse to support any organization/cable company that continues to fund CNN/AP/UPI.

BTW, now I do pay for access to news sites that I think give a better aggregation of news from around the world. The issue still remains that "journalism" doesn't give two shekels about the truth or facts nowadays, it's just "anonymous sources" or my favorite..."trending on twitter". Ughhhh.