The MSM Saw Obsolescence Coming…..–UPDATED
January 29, 2009 / 11:13 am • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierShould the New York Times go non-profit? That’s a thought. Will it matter if they do? I’m not sure.
From Gizmodo (who has a great video):
The piece is about the earliest days of digital media, when the lucky few home computer users could view content from a handful of prominent papers on their “television screens” by dialing into their CompuServe Information Service with their rotary phones.
It’s interesting to see how many people involved in the project at the Examiner and elsewhere had a resolutely realistic take on the whole thing, assuming, despite how clunky current technologies were, that digital media was the unavoidable future—a sentiment that has since lost favor in newsrooms, now that it’s actually coming to pass
Yes, well, it’s one thing to know you’re obsolete in theory. It’s another thing, to actually experience it.
UPDATED:
Via Instapundit, there IS life after losing a newspaper job.
Cross-posted at Right Wing News
2 Responses to “The MSM Saw Obsolescence Coming…..–UPDATED”
January 29 2009 / 2:03 pm
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Well color me shocked! I thought the NYT was already non-profit, given that it hasn’t made any profits for some time..
RG