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Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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What Happened to Newspaper Sales?

Every major public controversy in hundreds of years has been handled very differently by different parts of the press. And one of the reasons for that is because historically, press outlets were not that big. So every town would have its own newspaper and frequently and every city, would have multiple newspapers. In the twentieth century, you started having a competing media that had been newly developed, like radio and television. That meant newspaper sales started going down. And so what happened was the newspapers in cities started to either fold or merge. O which is why this period is often called muck the muck raking period or the yellow journalism period. The inter net does not have the limited frequency problem that radio or

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