Comments on: Reactions to the Newspaper Extinction Timeline: brickbats and (a few) bouquets

By: Tina Shang

Tina Shang — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:38:00 +0000

I agree with you Ross. I don’t know the timeline, but it is only a matter of time before paper exits the equation. I have been at odds with my colleagues in the industry for years over this very subject. I think that the bottom line and diminishing natural resources will dictate the move away from paper products as we know them. This isn’t to say that the news industry will die, but the medium will almost certainly change.
I don’t understand why people are so up in arms over the transition when it makes so much sense to move away from the news-on-paper model.

I think journalism as a whole would be in much better shape in 2017 if the transition from paper to digital had been embraced and the focus placed on maintaining journalistic integrity and good solid reporting in the digital age. Instead those stuck in legacy mode refused to budge and ignored the changing landscape of news until they couldn’t ignore it any longer and then tried to rush into adding digital components to a still legacy news room.

The result is the mess we have before us today. Fake news, bloggers with no training, and a complete lack of ethics and integrity in many sectors that have established themselves as purveyors of news in the digital landscape that was left wide open when the legacy agencies didn’t step up.

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By: Charles F Moreira

Charles F Moreira — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:43:58 +0000

An interesting timeline, Ross Dawson.
However, one thing you seem to have not touched on is whether advertising revenue from online-only media will be sufficient to cover the cost of its production, to pay the journalists, editors, web designers, webmasters, for the hosting and so on.
Well according to anecdotal evidence I’ve encountered, the answer is generally no, with few exceptions.
So what does that mean not only for the future of print media but more importantly for the future of journalism as a profession?
On the other hand, your forecast is based on prevailing trends but how certain can you be that there will not be a shift in such trends in the future and perhaps a pendulum-swing back to print.
Take those fancy digital watches for example, which became cheap enough for mass consumption in the late 1970s.
Here in Malaysia where I live, those digital watches were the craze throughout much of the 1980s, while mechanical analogue watches looked like going the way of the dodo but by 1989, mechanical and quartz analogue watches began making a comeback and today they line the shelves in watch stores at premium prices.
In the 1980s too, it seemed that the popularity of home video tape players signaled the demise of many of the cinemas in Kuala Lumpur, as many were turned into sales warehouses, churches, supermarkets, etc but cinemas made a comeback in the 1990s, this time as sophisticated cineplexes in shopping malls, rather than on the street, and charging 10 times what their predecessors charged for a ticket to watch the pictures.
Let’s not forget those valve amplifiers which were believed to be going the way of the dodo in the face of cheaper transistor amplifiers which consumed less power but greatly improved valve amplifiers have made a comeback and at premium prices in hi-fi stores. Well as any hi-fi enthusiast will know, valve amplifiers have a more linear amplification characteristic than transistor amps, hence produce a more faithful reproduction of the input sound signal.
Oh! and what if that huge solar storm indeed happens and knocks out our communication networks for months of not years?
So while thanks for your timeline which I have downloaded, there’s no certainty that there may not be a revival of print newspapers 10 years or so from now as people get tired of reading online.