Perhaps the most immediate difference is in visual presentation. Newspapers seem to have attempted to find a format which will be most appealing to the television-viewing audience of our nation. Any changes like this diminish the space available for covering the news. While they catch the eye and suck in the reader, they leave the reader with much less information and much more filler. The second important change is the nature of the stories.
Human interest seems to be the name of the game.
Compare the number of hard journalistic stories on the front page of a paper today to the front page of the same paper 10 years ago. Now let's talk about balance. A good newspaper should present on its front page a variety of articles covering a wide range of events. This seems to be an element forgotten by editors in their attempt to retain their readership. It is not unusual to pick up a newspaper and find three or four articles on the front page covering the same issue or related issues, with only a small amount of column space devoted to other stories.