There is no way to disguise the reality: newspaper readers, in the West at least, are getting older; younger readers prefer to get their information online, where readers spend far less time actually reading news than print readers do; and, most agonizingly of all for the industry, people who were willing to pay for newspapers are unwilling to pay for the same content on a screen.
现实就摆在那里：报纸读者，至少那些生活在西方的读者的年龄正不断增大；而那些更年轻的读者则喜欢从网上获取信息，这些人花在读新闻上的时间比平面媒体读者要少得多；最让整个平面媒体产业苦恼的是，原来愿意买报纸的人们如今却不愿为出现在电脑显示屏上的同样内容付钱。