Journalism: Fighting Zombie
“What’s black and white and completely over?” Jon Stewart quipped to his audience. The answer? Newspapers. You know, that dying, frail, hunk of tree that occasionally shows up on your doorstep. Otherwise known as my future.
A new Web site, hosted by 10,000words.net, showcases the somewhat amusing, yet still depressing, tales of the latest industry casualty. Journalism-is-dead.com posts sentences and comments about the end of the journalism world, as we know it today.
Comments range from funny: “Newspapers may be dead but they sure are turning out to be kick ass zombies,” to sincere “Just in case no-one told you, printed newspapers are dead. We know it, they know it; we’re just pretending they’re doing fine to be polite.”
Even though the field is dwindling, this doesn’t mean journalism is dead. It means print is running downhill, wildly. A change of technology makes a change of scenery. Many newspapers are already implementing ways to get revenue off the Web; it won’t be long until the print has ceased and the Web will take over. When the world only has one option for a place to get news, they’re going to have to pay to read it.
Your voice is very eminent. I can actually picture a person saying this in real time. I guess I have mixed views on where the newspapers are headed, but I’m partial to the internet. I hate holding the paper in my hands. If they made it more like a magazine, in that format, it might interest me more.
What’s your personal take on the idea of having to pay to read articles online?
| Posted 2 years, 11 months ago