Pew survey suggests Americans not that concerned about their local paper

A survey by Pew reveals that Americans are not that concerned about the den=msie of their local papers.(ht-Adrian Monck)

According to the survey

fewer than half of Americans (43%) say that losing their local newspaper would hurt civic life in their community "a lot." Even fewer (33%) say they would personally miss reading the local newspaper a lot if it were no longer available.

Amongst those that read the local product figures were rather higher,not surprisingly but even then only 56 per cent thought that losing the local paper would hurt local democracy