Guess what? A debate about the future of newspapers!

Posted May 1, 2008 * Comments(2)

A bit late, I know – but have just had a read of the posts on the Britannica Blog’s: Are Newspapers Doomed? forum. Impossible to read without this from the Onion in mind (thank you SeumasSeamus).

My thoughts? Nicholas Carr’s points about unbundling are on the money (familiar if you have read Blown To Bits). But, the debate is now pretty much meaningless. We’re on a journey. We can’t go back. We can’t stop. We can’t see the end yet. So we might as well carry on, enjoy the view, and make the most of it.

2 Comments so far

  1. Alfred Hermida on May 1st, 2008

    This is a bit of a pointless debate. We should be discussing the future of journalism, rather than the future of one delivery mechanism for the news.

  2. Seamus McCauley on May 2nd, 2008

    Dear Sonim

    You win this week’s prize for the worst spelling of “Seamus”.

    Yours
    etc

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