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May 13th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
I think the reported demise of the newspaper industry is overblown. It’s just a matter of them figuring out how to hone the profitability of the internet. It’ll take a few years, but it’s not impossible. Some papers have already managed to do it.
Newspapers are going to need some streamlining. The world of daily papers in most medium-sized communities may be over, but a more streamlined approach will keep the biz alive. It could be different and smaller, new players could emerge, but there’s a market for information and as long as there’s a market, there will be entrepreneurs and others trying to seize it.
May 13th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I hope the end of “real” newspapers is not at hand. I like to sit in the morning with the Globe and the Sun , have a cup of cocoa and “wake up” to the day. ( My Sun comes early) I cannot imagine a world without newspapers and I hope it never comes.
May 14th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
We have to differentiate between Newspapers and Local Newspapers. The Sun is probably going to end up being a weekly paper at best and it is not helping itself with the cuts in local news. Will people buy it’s on-line version? Not likely.
We “the public” can get most of what is published in the Sun from other sources most notably the Associated Press. However the Associated Press gets most of its news from newspapers.
Here is the Catch 22. If local papers like the Sun continue to cut local content then the Associated Press continues to lose local and regional stories that they can pass along to other newspapers, and so on and so on.
Now what you have are a few, very few, newspapers that cover national stories. No one covers international stories…harken back to the days of 9-11 when we all asked why do they hate us? Without International news we will be blind to the next attack as well! …I digress…
So some newspapers will survive, a few of them and they will be national newspapers, however the local papers…the papers that are the most critical to actual democracy…will die. Then who do you believe? The pols when they say X is Y…no one will be there to tell you different.
The demise of newspapers, as much as I despise the Sun, is the most severe challenge to our political system in the history of this country!