10 little white lies you hear about the future of newspapers

Mar 9, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

Print is dead.
Journalism is dying.
Paid online content will save newspapers.
No one will pay for online news.
You haven’t tried anything.
You should try everything.
We’ve tried everything.
We’ve certainly tried that before, and it didn’t work then, so it won’t work now.
This is all corporate media’s / Google’s / Craig’s / Bush’s / Obama’s / the economy’s / the Internet’s / journalists’ / management’s / education’s fault.
No one will miss newspapers when they’re gone.

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12 responses to “10 little white lies you hear about the future of newspapers”

Adrian Holovaty

March 9, 2009

11. Integrating Twitter/Facebook with your newspaper site will magically make you relevant.

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1. Ryan
  
  March 10, 2009
  
  @adrian – Hey, no fair omitting the twin: “12. Social media is a waste of your news staff’s time.” 😉
  
  Hey, and while you’re here:
  
  13. If journalism schools would just teach computer science, a thousand databases would bloom.
  
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  14. Journalism schools should stick to the basics — that’s what they’re good at. (Or maybe that counts as two?)
  
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Annette Schulte

March 10, 2009

15. Throw a millennial at it, and we’ll be saved.

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Will Sommer

March 10, 2009

Readers can’t be trusted to comment responsibly.

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Alfred Hermida

March 10, 2009

16: The internet can never replace the serendipity of the newspaper.

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codyk

March 10, 2009

17. If we keep writing “You’ll miss us when we’re gone” columns, papers will be saved.

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Mindy McAdams

March 11, 2009

“9. This is all corporate media’s / Google’s / Craig’s / Bush’s / Obama’s / the economy’s / the Internet’s / journalists’ / management’s / education’s fault.”

BLOGGERS! You forgot bloggers! It’s THEIR fault!

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Nestvman

March 21, 2009

At the end of the day you can’t take your desk top to the shitter.

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1. Ryan
  
  March 21, 2009
  
  Really? iPhone, Kindle, MacBook Air? That problem’s been solved. Next?
  
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ehutch

April 10, 2009

unless newspapers can deliver honest unfiltered news, they wont be missed. who needs news with a corporate slant.

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Ryan

April 10, 2009

I love that I’ve completely lost track of which comment is an actual sentiment, and which is an additional “little white lie.”

Number your lies, people! 😛

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