> I thought newspapers were killed long ago by radio and then radio was > wiped out by television. Now television is being wiped out by the > internet. Or maybe not. Maybe that's just an ignorant notion about > how media works.
It's not my ignorance that's showing. All of the hysterical predictions you cite were just that: predictions. They were issued at the start of the new technologies. The effect of the Internet on newspapers is a long time coming and roof, as they say, is in the pudding. The recession was just the last push over the precipice. It's clear as glass to anyone looking at the situation that doesn't have an ideological narrative to push that this is most likely the beginning of the end for the newspaper industry as we know it. I've already said that some will undoubtedly survive, but the future for newspapers and newsmags is bleak. > Did you keep reading past the initial rather shallow essay. The > commentators were much more insightful. Do you mean where the Marxists show up and start citing McChesney about making newspapers little more than arms of party machines to dispense government propaganda, if they want the money to keep flowing? Oh yes, crackling good insight. The candle and buggy-whip maker unions would be quite pleased with such a plan to prop up their ailing industries. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
