Reliability and permanence, or, why legals still have a place in newsprint

The other day someone on the radio said legals in the paper were no longer necessary. He argued legal notices could be “printed” for free on the internet and that no one noticed them in the newspaper anyway. I can’t prove he said that, I have no written transcript of what the gentleman actually said. I was even told these comments were edited for the later-in-the-day broadcast.

As far as not being noticed in the paper ... Do you really think they would be MORE noticed on the web or the radio?

Like the broadcast I missed ... I missed it. Done. Gone like so much water vapor.

If I miss it in the...