S2, Blog 7

Predict how companies or industries similar to the one that you worked at during internship would have fared during the Great Depression. Would your company have thrived or sunk? Why?

I worked at a local newspaper company, the La Jolla Light. Although it is a very popular newspaper nowadays, it would have probably "sunk," so to speak, during the Great Depression. During the 30's, most local companies shut down, most likely including local newspapers. Perhaps local newspapers that were centered more around the source of the Great Depression's cause, which would be Wall Street. Seeing as how La Jolla is all the way across the country from Wall Street, it wouldn't be too thriving. However, the La Jolla Light has been around and enlightening La Jolla since 1913, so in truth it actually survived through the Great Depression.