There was a really good perspective in the Miami Herald today written by columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr about the death of the newspaper. Leonard writes that the newspapers should be embracing the web rather than clinging to print editions or they would fail miserably.
I wrote about the dying newspaper industry a little over a month ago, but it’s always good to hear other people’s views. Here are a few tidbits from the linked article that hammer the point home:
“Virtually every newspaper is going through the same thing: shrinking profit margins, declining circulation, staff cutbacks and morale at subterranean levels as journalists struggle to figure out how we can save the American newspaper. But I have come — reluctantly — to believe we can’t.”
“So maybe we should regard the Internet not as an extra thing we do, but as the core thing we do.”
“If you are a connoisseur of irony, you may find it amusing that this argument comes from a guy who recently wrote that the Internet is eroding our ability to focus . . . Like most print journalists, I am sentimental about newspapers. But I am also sentimental about eating.”
