Some say "Newspapers are dead." "The internet is the only place to advertise now days."
Newspapers are in trouble, but print will never go away.
Believe it or not, print ads still dominate by far any other kind of marketing. People who believe newspapers are dead don't know the facts. Sure, online is growing fast and has taken market share, but only around 6 percent of all retail sales are from online.
https://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/pdf/ec_current.pdf
Internet is not the primary answer to effective marketing. That's why, after spending millions on scientific studies, Fortune 500 companies like Macy's, Safeway, Lowe's, Sears, Target, et al., spend most of their marketing budgets on print.
Print revenue is half what it used to be just a few years ago. But in 2012 print revenue accounted for $18.931 billion while online was $3.370 billion.
http://stateofthemedia.org/2013/newspapers-stabilizing-but-still-threatened/newspapers-by-the-numbers/
When radio came along, they said it was the end of newspapers. Then when TV became popular, they said the same thing. And now it's the Internet.
