{"id":9360,"date":"2009-03-27T18:01:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T01:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/newspaper-demise-predicted\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T18:10:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T01:10:31","slug":"newspaper-demise-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/newspaper-demise-predicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper demise predicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was 1947 and I met an elderly Mongolian in Japan who was 114 years old and a direct descendant of the great Genghis Khan.<\/p>\n<p>He used to tell me predictions of which a vast amount proved true, and one of his very odd predictions was that newspapers across the world will one day become rare and electronics (would) replace them in short order, and this is now coming TRUE&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He said the electronic WEB and Internet-online would replace them and that their loss would cause the postal department many job losses and delay delivery mainly due to electronics out dating them as no one will want to advertise in papers when it is less on WEB etd, and if one takes the time to study and figure, it is fast becoming a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Even in your advertising as well as in columnist columns you yourself can see postal mailing addresses are not made available, have also left out postal addresses and millions do not use electronics today, so they avoid mailing letters to columnists, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This in turn gives financial returns and even mail will soon be delivered only four days and higher prices WILL NOT CORRECT this problem &#8230; just look at your own \u201cUSA WEEKEND\u201d and the columnists &#8230; it\u2019s there to see no one using MAIL ADDRESSES &#8230; it\u2019s only the beginning and look at the last P-I&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Leon Thompson<\/p>\n<p>Kent<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 1947 and I met an elderly Mongolian in Japan who was 114 years old and a direct descendant of the great Genghis Khan. He used to tell me predictions of which a vast amount proved true, and one of his very odd predictions was that newspapers across the world will one day become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9360"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}