“You’re gonna miss us when we’re gone!”
So say we all!My brother was kind enough to send along this gloom & doom (ie: accurate) analysis of the current state of print journalism. Don’t know this guy Shirky, but he’s given this issue at least as much thought as I have and expressed his thinkings better than I probably could.
Important reading if you or anyone you know relies on print journalism for a living.
posted by Fang Bastardson at 11:37 AM
1 Comments:
at least you got skills for the new format/technology so you shouldn't be left out in the cold.
Whatever is done it has to be relevant. Will people get their news from the web? what about crossword puzzles and funnies and want ads? Will it be as dependable? Pay radio is having a hard time because people have not quite caught on to paying for radio, the same could have been said for tv 20 years ago but eventually people will pay for radio the same way they pay for tv. My only computer class in college was in the fall of 1981 and it was called Data Processing and the prof said that IBM was coming out w/ PC's, personal computers, every desk in every office will have one....I said bullshit, these godamn things are impossibly hard to work and I can't see the reason for having a "small one" on my desk.....hmmm, missed that one.
laptops and Blackberrys will be the newspapers of tomorrow
so get on the bandwagon and hang on
1:39 PM
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