The New Yorker proclaims newspapers “Out of Print”
Okay, I hadn’t seen this when I posted my previous bit. All in all its a very bad day for the print media. Quoting from Eric Alterman’s article: …trends in circulation and advertising––the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising––have created a palpable sense of doom. Independent, publicly traded American newspapers have lost forty-two per cent of their market value in the past…