The END of Media as We KNOW It?
November 12th, 2008by Ron Sitton
From one of our sister blogs:
The Southerner Journal
Southerner.Net
MONTICELLO, Ark. — I recently attended the Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers annual conference in Kansas City, Mo. Students seemed worried that the media as we know it will not be there once they get out of school.
Who’s to blame them considering the continual death tolls:
Considering we’ve just gone from three national daily newspapers to two, who’s to provide the news if the profits from the print product disappear?
Who’s to say the Christian Science Monitor won’t figure it out?
Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy
But just when everyone says newspapers are dying, along comes a historical event and EVERYBODY wants a paper:
Newspapers fly off racks after Obama victory
Personally I believe newspapers will stay around as long as smaller communities exist, and as long as people need something to read while taking public transportation, going to the bathroom or sitting under a tree. Truly, time will tell.
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