Everyone has been pointing to this Marc Andreeson interview with Charlie Rose - around minute 28 he gets going about newspapers, and eventually says that the "game is over" for print news. This isn't news to me; I doubt the companies running the papers will pay much attention though. It's really, really hard for a company that's had success in X to transition successfully when things transition over to Y.

The far more likely path is what we're seeing happening already in some of the niche areas, like tech news: the old players are being completely overwhelmed by the new players, because the new guys don't have any romantic connection back to "the way it should be done". I expect that we'll have plenty of good news reporting in the future - it just won't be happening via the same companies who did print. And, in my opinion, radio and tv are going to get the same treatment....

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