I just read that “Our Sunday Visitor” a storied Catholic newspaper will no longer print hard copy papers. Let me backtrack. In fact, their newspaper ceased publication in 2024 and was replaced by a magazine. The magazine is now going out of production with its October publication.
Thus, there will be no hard copy publications from OSV, only on-line news.
And that’s what is killing the hard copy newspapers. The digital age, the internet and most humble blogs like mine.
I use to love to hold a newspaper in my hand and read it while I ate breakfast. But reading “papers” on line is the new way to deliver papers. Not the hardcopy but the digital form.
As a child, I delivered hardcopy newspapers for “The Augusta Herald”. It was owned by “The Augusta Chronicle.” The Chronicle was the morning paper and the Herald was the afternoon paper and every afternoon I delivered papers. I was in elementary school. And at the age of 10 or so, I went to people’s homes, knocked on the door, entered their house and gave them a pitch about why they should buy a subscription to “The Augusta Herald”. Sometimes they would offer me a drink of some kind, not mixed though. Elementary school age!
The Herald closed in the mid 1990’s and only the morning paper remains but now a mere shadow of its former self and owned now, not by a local southerner, but a liberal Yankee conglomerate which also prints USAtoday!
I grieve the era of hardcopy newspapers, both secular and religious, will soon be gone with the wind. There’s no going backwards to the good old days in this regard. The piecemeal digital way people get their news is here to stay or is it?
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