Chronicle of the Newspaper Death Foretold

A good three decades before the newspaper industry began blaming its declining fortunes on the Web, the iPod, and game machines, it knew it was in huge trouble, Slate’s Jack Shafer reports.

November 30, 2006 by
Filed Under: General News

COMMENTS

  • Coyne

    The interesting thing about this article is the unpopular truth of it. Print media is dieing. America has jumpstarted a technological age, which the world has embraced in a furry.

    The true direction of news is undetermined at the moment. Although media is most observed via the World Wide Web these days, it still seems to be in a state of transition.

    Change is a natural occurrence in life, and print media has been more successful for more decades that anyone could have probably imagined.

    The question is not if the media of news will change, but how that media will change. What will the new powerful form of news delivery be? Therein will the profits for news lie.

  • Bitter old journalist

    Dear ‘Coyne’:
    ‘Dieing’? ‘…embraced in a furry’? ‘Media is…’? ‘…more decades that anyone could have…’? Perhaps newspapers are dying. More troubling is that perhaps literacy is dead.