"If Nader has his way, the website will be a sideshow to the printed main event, as he believes digital publications fail to engage readers because they’re too cluttered and abbreviated. Plus, he said, the 'real decisionmakers' get their news in print."
Leave it to Ralph Nader, though, to identify a problem and then come up with the clumsiest, most ham-fisted and polarizing way to address it!
In the wake of Twitter's implosion, I re-subscribed to our regional newspaper last month, in addition to the hyper-local print newspaper I've gotten for years, so I still believe there's an audience for print.
This isn't some innovative approach to news, though; it's just an old contrarian, set in his ways, launching a passion project for his hometown. Unlike the many other dilettantes in the space, it's not even funded well enough to deserve serious attention. #cmonson