Comments on: Sign #203,467 That Newspapers Are Doomed

By: Jaim

Jaim — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:45:33 +0000

Unfindable? That’s unpossible!

By: ncsenior

ncsenior — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:43:49 +0000

What, I’m going to have to take my laptop to the John with me?

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:50:11 +0000

The best scenario is newspapers converting to all digital format.

Revenue is a problem.

Newspapers haven’t been able to generate a significant revenue stream from online products. Television is going great guns through cable. If you’re going to pay good reporters and writers, you gotta sell either ads or subscriptions.

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:25:28 +0000

Too bad. TV news is garbage, and blogs conform to the ethical standards only of the blogger. The best scenario is newspapers converting to all digital format.

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:26:45 +0000

Any newspaper executive who thinks he or she is in the “newspaper business” needs to retire. Newspaper companies are in the news business and the advertising business. There’s really not much point in trying to find ways to keep delivering the product on sheets of paper.

If I was working for a newspaper company, I’d be looking for a merger with a television station. (Of course, that raises all sorts of regulatory issues, but them’s the breaks.) If you look five or ten years down the road, news in text form is going to be an adjunct to news in video form and both are going to be delivered over cable or HD digital over-the-air signals into a user-controlled interface.

TV stations and TV networks are going to resist–initially–the challenge to provide supplementary content. However, as Jeri Ryan has told us, resistance is futile. Cable and TIVO and whatever-comes-next will begin by allowing two open windows–one for video, one for internet. If TV news management is smart, they’ll capitalize on giving viewers the capability to select content rather than have it pushed at them.

Once that happens, there’s no separating TV, internet, and text.

By: joaquin

joaquin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:38:40 +0000

I can’t imagine newspapers being around in 15 years. (Well maybe the USAToday outside your hotel door)
When you have papers like the WSJ pushing their online edition, you know they can see what’s coming.

By: Tim Fuller

Tim Fuller — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:56:44 +0000

I love the smell of media desperation in the morning.

Enjoy.