Chris Powell, newspaper editor blames journalism's decline on single moms

Chris Powell is the managing editor of the Joual Inquirer, a local Connecticut newspaper, and he's got a fairly novel theory as to why the newspaper industry's in decline: single moms. "Even in a supposedly prosperous and well-educated state like Connecticut, how strong can demand for [the news] be now that half the children are being raised without two parents at home and thus acquiring developmental handicaps?" he queried recently.

And he goes on: "Indeed, newspapers still can sell themselves to traditional households — two-parent families involved with their children, schools, churches, sports, civic groups and such. But newspapers cannot sell themselves to households headed by single women who have several children by different fathers, survive on welfare stipends, can hardly speak or read English, move every few months to cheat their landlords, barely know what town they're living in, and couldn't afford a newspaper subscription even if they could read. And such households constitute a rising share of the population."

Tell us how you really feel, Mr. Powell. Don't hold back. [Source]