The Exaggerated Death of Newspapers
Newspapers are dead. They didn’t have to be, but their window of opportunity closed long ago.— Steve Rhodes, Beachwood Reporter, a blog.
“I’m sick and tired of listening to everybody talk about and commiserate over the end of newspapers. They ain’t ended, they’re not going to end and I think they have a great future.” – Sam Zell, new Tribune Co. boss.
My money is on Sam. And my apologies to Zell for mentioning Rhodes in the same breathe.
Rhodes apparently doesn’t catch the irony of pronouncing newspapers DOA, while he fuels his blog with daily rants about…newspapers. If Rhodes is right that the papers already are dead, I guess that means he’s living off a cadaver.
But Rhodes isn’t alone. He appeared on a recent WTTW-TV Chicago Tonight panel dissecting the industry’s supposed death throes. But as Mark Twain might have advised, it’s always dangerous to pronounce ... Read More...
