AltWeeklies Wire
Last Chance for Daily Papers: Close Their Websites
Daily newspapers have embraced the "information wants to be free" ethos of the internet, and it has led them to the brink of ruin. The answer? Make the news they give away now expensive and scarce.
If the New York Times Disappears, Will the World Survive?new
There is no Me Decade, no Free Decade, no E! Decade. Newspapers aren't dying. Television didn't destroy the movie business, movies didn't destroy books, books didn't destroy cave paintings. The sky isn't falling and Gay Talese will get everything he needs via fax and the future isn't going to be so bad, really, because it turns out the future is now, and nothing has really changed.
New York Press |
David Blum |
05-22-2008 |
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