Aberdeen's Anti-Blogger Won't Like This News
It is my contention that in 20 years (maybe less) there may not be daily newspapers.
I guess I’m not completely off my rocker.
Editor and Publisher notes the following about the Los Angeles Times:
‘LAT’ Editor: Web Will Be ‘Primary Vehicle’ for News Delivery
Recently installed editor James O’Shea announced that the newspaper would integrate its print and online newsrooms, saying the paper is engaged in “a fight to recoup threatened revenue that finances our news gathering.” He also named business editor Russ Stanton to the newly created position of Special Editor for Innovation, and announced that the print edition of the paper would soon undergo a full redesign.
Sorry Dr. Newquist, but it looks like this online thing might stick around for a while. You might need to bring a laptop to breakfast in 2009 or so as you eat your Wheaties.
Todd Epp
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What I hope to see in the future is something like the new Sony e-book display that uses pixel ink to make a page that looks like black print on paper. When that is in an affordable version the size of current newspaper page, there will be little need for the page printed on paper. It will be in a convenient shape and size like our currrent papers and be a digital device.
Even so, there will still be a need for organizations to collect actual news and not just spew opinions about the news as most of us bloggers actually do most of the time.
There will still be daily papers, they just might not be black marks on pulp.
And I agree, by the way, with Mr. Hinkle.