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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9748218" data-attributes="member: 11760">It's a lot of things, none of which can magically be undone.It used to be that every small town had its own newspaper with its own printing press, which meant a lot of competition, along with a healthy ecosystem for printing, including labor, materials, etc.Now, large parts of the country have no printing presses at all (in part because large parts of the country no longer have a printed newspaper of their own) with the reduced print runs for newspapers being handled by regional hubs. Even large newspapers like the Los Angeles Times don't even print their own newspapers any more.Printing presses are enormous, require specialists to run (people regularly die or get maimed running large scale printers like newspapers use) and one can't just pop down to Office Max to get a roll of newsprint as big as a small house to use with it.I mean, yes, there are labor and environmental laws in the US that aren't in place in China, but even if there weren't, it would be the work of decades to bring back American printing at the level required by everyone that sells printed material.</blockquote>