Our View: Print is alive and well in Wyoming

Trust us, we’ve heard it before.

“Print is dead.” “Nobody reads newspapers anymore.” “The Internet is the place to be.”

Well, those naysayers are wrong.

According to a survey from Pulse Research, Wyoming’s newspapers are still the number one source for news and consumer information. Newspapers beat radio, television and yes, the Internet, as sources people turn to.

“Unfortunately, many businesses have the misperception that ‘print is dead,’” said an executive summary of the results written by John Marling of Pulse Research.

Nearly 70 percent of the people polled in the survey say they read new...