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The internet has almost single handily killed newspapers and to a certain extent, will kill magazines. There is simply NO WAY to make money off internet advertising and most publications have foolishly given it away for free.
Of course the black eye the media has been given by Conservative pundits like Rush hasn't helped either. But for those that think the world or country would be a better place if the press was gone completely, ask yourself who will be the watchdog of all the crooked politicians from your smallest of local governments all the way to the president himself. We will live in a world where injustices against man and humanity will go unnoticed. Fortunately, we still live in a country where the free press is guaranteed by our constitution. If there is no press, then there is no freedom.
However, newspapers are laying off staffs and downsizing to a near point of extinction and at an alarming rate. Newspapers and magazines know they must find a way to deliver the product cheaper and with much better impact to try and somehow keep the young generation interested. Unfortunately, kids today don't want to spend time reading about the world around them unless it's a video game.
Through friends at Time, I have heard about the hybrid being developed below. And don't be surprised if in the very near future, all the news you were accustomed to getting in the form of a paper product isn't delivered to your home in a tablet format via a phone line. The video below is what a subscription to Sports Illustrated will end up looking like. Pretty cool.
Hopefully it's not too little too late....
"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823
"The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816.
KAZ
Of course the black eye the media has been given by Conservative pundits like Rush hasn't helped either. But for those that think the world or country would be a better place if the press was gone completely, ask yourself who will be the watchdog of all the crooked politicians from your smallest of local governments all the way to the president himself. We will live in a world where injustices against man and humanity will go unnoticed. Fortunately, we still live in a country where the free press is guaranteed by our constitution. If there is no press, then there is no freedom.
However, newspapers are laying off staffs and downsizing to a near point of extinction and at an alarming rate. Newspapers and magazines know they must find a way to deliver the product cheaper and with much better impact to try and somehow keep the young generation interested. Unfortunately, kids today don't want to spend time reading about the world around them unless it's a video game.
Through friends at Time, I have heard about the hybrid being developed below. And don't be surprised if in the very near future, all the news you were accustomed to getting in the form of a paper product isn't delivered to your home in a tablet format via a phone line. The video below is what a subscription to Sports Illustrated will end up looking like. Pretty cool.
Hopefully it's not too little too late....
"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823
"The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816.
KAZ