How the newspaper industry tried to invent the Web but failed.

Slate by Jack Shafer | Jan. 6, 2009 (News Analysis)

It would be easy to accuse editors and publishers of being clueless about the coming Internet disruption and to insist that the industry's proper reward for decades of haughty attitude, bad planning, and incompetence is bankruptcy.

But newspapers have really, really tried to wrap their hands around the future and preserve their franchise... Full Story »

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 by Jack Dinkmeyer - Jan. 6, 2009

A sympathetic look at the demise of the newspaper industry. Still, the article contains little information we haven’t seen before. New technology alters old forms of technology. And the internet doesn’t seem to accommodate the lengths of traditional newspapers. Then there’s the problem of advertising and revenues.

How will technologies still on the horizon displace our current forms like free television and other mass media? For example, IPod is more than merely a new distribution medium and it’s potential is still in the process of being developed.

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