Newspapers RIP?
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The mote I always find amusing in these kind of discussions is the innate assumption that what is should ever-more be thus. Should we mourn the passing of a media form that is inherently wasteful? One that categorises its audience into rigid hierachies and so regiments its editorial to spoon feed a party line to sate its punters' daily dollar-spend?
The threat to the independent journalist class is indeed a worry - but that is a field that could more than amply be filled by the internet. So what are we to be concerned about here? The loss of paper-based news? Of an entrenched establishment's inability to move with the times?
The cover price on most newspapers is largely irrelevant - the bulk of their revenues come from advertising. The internet needn't change that aspect.