Requiem for a dying newspaper industry
This weekend, Bonnie and I went to see State of Play (plot summary: cute cub reporter, grizzled old vet, black helicopters) at the Big Picture (once again, what an awesome place to see a movie).
In so many ways, the film is a requiem for a dying newspaper industry. The cub reporter is from the online division, the grumpy veteran’s office is filled with paper. The movie is capped off with sentimental footage of big newspaper printing presses as the final credits roll.
This morning, Om writes on Why the Kindle HD Can’t Save Newspapers and references an article from Clay Shirky that hadn’t crossed my desk yet:
There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke. […] It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.
I could have picked 15 other spots to quote as well. The article is fantastic, and if you are at all interested in the death of the newspaper industry, you should read the whole thing.
p.s. also this morning: Boston Globe almost shut down
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