The newspapers in the United States are struggling to make ends meet. In the face of the massive entity known as the Internet, small town newspapers are finding it harder and harder to compete for advertising revenue. The major source of income that drives all of the things a newspaper does is their advertising budget. As advertisement increases on the Internet, it is declining in traditional print medias like newspapers and magazines.

What does this mean to you and me? It means fewer pages, fewer quality articles and fewer stories about what affects you everyday. As the wallet grows thinner and thinner for the small town paper, they are forced to print fewer pages with less content. These papers must trim their staff leaving less quality writers with little time to cover hometown stories that matter to the readers. All we are left with is a newspaper that is full of syndicated stories that we have seen a thousand times on CNN or FOX and a few print ads that are helping to keep the paper alive.

We are also seeing these small town papers try to move onto the Internet to get some of this revenue share. But what can they do with such a small circulation in terms of the billions online today? They are forced to take the scraps from the table of the giants by joining every small affiliate program available to them and hope that the pennies a ad that they get from these programs will bring in enough revenue to fill the gap that is left behind by disappearing print advertisement.

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