This doesn't seem as dramatic to me as others are finding it.
The 1950's seem to me like they would be a high point for newspapers (every book and movie set in those years has newspapers quite prominently, and wikipedia says that papers per person peaked in 1950). The years after that look like outliers actually, and now things are simply returning to normal.
But to make a true examination I would really like to see a graph going further back (to 1900, and even better to 1850), and I would like to see a graph adjusted per capita (per household, not person).
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This doesn't seem as dramatic to me as others are finding it.
The 1950's seem to me like they would be a high point for newspapers (every book and movie set in those years has newspapers quite prominently, and wikipedia says that papers per person peaked in 1950). The years after that look like outliers actually, and now things are simply returning to normal.
But to make a true examination I would really like to see a graph going further back (to 1900, and even better to 1850), and I would like to see a graph adjusted per capita (per household, not person).