I’m an optimist… The newspaper will not be around in twenty years. Let’s say ‘taps’ and move on. Just said by Drew Clark at the luncheon talk at the Berkman Center. It was a toss-off line, but along a very constructive vector. Uncontained by legacy systems like the print one that both supports and shackles the newspaper industry, Drew and his fellow travelers are breaking important trails.
More… there are different sorts of front pages out there… RSS is a sort of front page… Journalism has a very bright future; just a different one than it’s had…
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[…] Doc Searls quoted Drew Clark today, saying that newspapers as we know them are over – I’m an optimist… The newspaper will not be around in twenty years. Let’s say ‘taps’ and move on. […]
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Jeez, that means that the News Press will be gone before Wendy McCaw gets through with the legal system. I understand that the NLRB decision alone could take another five years. She’s already been to the Supreme Court once (and lost).
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It can’t go away fast enough…
I wonder how much circulation has already decreased due to the Internet… I started to Google the answer but my 3G connection isn’t being very responsive at the moment.
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