Paper as a news delivery media is effectively obsolete. Under the best of circumstances, the “news” in a paper is about 8 hours old by the time the paper arrives. I dropped weekday delivery of my local paper because it didn’t arrive early enough for me to read it before going to work. By the time I get home from work, the “news” in that paper would be almost 24 hours old. Contrast that with getting news on the Internet where updates are frequent and paper based news just can’t compete.
What today’s so-called journalists need to grasp is that they’re not in the newspaper business, they’re in the information business. They need to find a way to earn money by providing timely and accurate information. It’d be great if the reporting were bias-free but simply making it accurate would be a big improvement over what we get today. If they can’t do that, they’ll go the way of the buggy-whip makers of old.
