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I wonder when the Des Moines Register will adopt this attitude…

What attitude? Blaming the internet for failure, again. Guess what - you’ve had ample opportunity to adapt and you haven’t listened. All you had to do was divert eyeballs through a different medium.

Walter Hussman Jr writes in a WSJ column that free is a “disastrous business plan.” He discusses that young, computer-saavy consumers like myself won’t buy a paper because I can find ‘all the news that’s fit to print’ online. (that blurb is on the front of every NYT - don’t tell me that I don’t read newspapers)

Yeah, you are right. Your problem is that you should have figured out this was going to be the case ten years ago. How much more obvious could it have been?

A question, Walter, is how can you explain a rise in newspaper circulation?

There’s been a resurgance of the talks of newspapers closing shop due to the loss of advertising (Google’s fault) and classifieds (Craigslist’s fault) revenue. Bill Gates is correct (in my opinion) in saying newspapers will be online in five years. The question I have is how many newspapers will start working towards that now - rather than when it is too late? If it isn’t already…

Tags: Newspapers, Web, Media

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