Local VS Not really that local

As we enter or exit our local super markets, gas stations and even restaurants, we pass these stands that contain a bunch of papers with out dated news (like two days ago) on them, "news" that we probably already heard of via social media or tv and that we are almost over by the time we even see it on the stands in our local stores. We live in a world where so many people are concerned about what others are doing around them and who's screwing up and who's not, rather than what's happening half away across the country. We as people want to know what's going on right here; right now.

Let's take it back to the VERY beginning; when you're walking through that grocery store, gas station or restaurant and see one of these ancient piles of paper. Are you more likely to pick it up if there's a story that happened hours away or s few streets? What about if it has your neighbors face on it compared to some random that committed a crime? If your child's high school is mentioned  compared to another school you've never even heard of? If I'm guessing correctly you would rather much hear about the things that you can easily relate to or know about personally. Not only are we interested in what's going on around in our community but we are just god damn nosey. Not only by reading your local newspaper will you know what's going on, but out of your family and friends you will be the ultimate gossip Nazi. Who doesn't want that within their community? By reading your local newspaper (The Dundalk Eagle) you'll know the latest news such as what's going on local schools, parks, stores, sports, obituaries, engagements, stuff that's on sale, just pure dundalk-y things  and so much more just from the little Dundalk community packed into one  paper that may be written on a like third grade level that all can understand and read easily (hopefully), We are talking about the dundalk paper here.

Television...Social Media... Word on the street.. Don't we already know what's going on in the world around us without really even being around it or knowing anything at all? If we want to know what happened half way across the country are we going to go rush to the store to buy a paper and then spend the time to look through it to make sure it's in there? Yeah, absolutely not. This is 2014, not the stone age. We are going to either A) Go to social media B) Turn on the TV C) Google it D) All of the above. We don't care about what they put in the paper, this is old news to us. By the time this paper is out, we have already googled, heard about the situation 14 times on TV, and someone has made an inappropriate joke or picture via twitter or instagram. Like what's the point?  Papers such as USA today should be on life support; the plug will be pulled eventually due to the fact it's already telling us things we already know or don't even care enough about to know, because we are simple minded individuals.

Don't believe me? Read this article from last Friday:http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/03/usa-today-layoffs/15035885/