The French state will help provide free newspaper subscriptions to teenagers for their 18th birthdays, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Friday. But the bigger gift is for France’s ailing print media.
Source: Associated Press
I find it a useful solution for this problem since it may make teens more aware of their citizenship. And they are just applying the trial method that you see everywhere in the industry.
“It is indeed its responsibility … to make sure an independent, free and pluralistic press exists,” he said.
I totally agree. But I have a better solution: don’t support print media at all. If their market is dying, they should adapt to the new one. They have to move on to the online media, and that way you will not only help the press, as well as internet-related industries. Oh, and teens will also access those news because they already have a presence online.