A couple of interesting pieces on the state of the newspaper industry in the past two days.
Frank Rich’s NYT column on Sunday. He makes the point that the movie industry was just as worried about the rise of Television. I think that is true to an extent but the difference is that the Internet has changed the landscape in more fundamental ways. Control has been handed over to the user whereas with Television there were more channels and it was a game changer but it was an extension of the same medium still controlled by broadcasters, studios and producers.
The Howard Kurtz Washington Post piece brings up much better points as he takes his own industry for task for not being more innovative. He looks at the real problem which is the economics of it all. He rightly points out that online advertising is not the answer but leaves room for the fact that it isn’t too late to innovate. People are turning to trusted newspapers online they just need to start figuring out how to better serve them in the new medium and then figure out how to pay for it all.
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