Someone should construct a “death of newspapers” inflation index. There has been a surge lately:
Michael Kinsley asks Do newspapers have a future? in Time Magazine. Arguably the funniest so far, especially about the alternative, seen from the desperate newspaper man’s perspective:
Meanwhile, there is the blog terror: people are getting their understanding of the world from random lunatics riffing in their underwear, rather than professional journalists with standards and passports.
Kinsley proceeds to kill the print, but keep the news.
Then there was The Economist asking who killed the newspaper – expertly dissected here.
I’m not forgetting the home front. Newspaper consultant Erik Wilberg recently presented scenarios for the newspaper, and they were refreshingly different in the way that none of them predicted anything else but fast and furious change for the newspapers. Superbly analyzed by Andreas (in Norwegian, the original scenario material not online…).
And from May this year, Dagbladet weighed in with a death verdict.
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