The Collapse Of The Daily Paper.

There is a major crisis about to happen

All of the media outlets are going to become obsolete and the internet will take hold as the new paradigm of information control.

in other words.. There will be no newspapers.. people will laugh at the idea of a newspaper, (it destroys trees, etc.. it's bulky.. not up-to-date enough, it's controlled) .. all of these things ... the biggest problem, or even crisis is that the internet is more easily controlled than the current media; not only that but very very large percentages of the population do not know the first thing about computers, let alone the internet and this goes for most people who think their niece or nephew, son or daughter are computer geniuses, .. face it ... they aren't.. they just sat and played with the thing longer than you have patience for.

Not only is this dangerous.. but far more misleading than television, they decided to give us a multitude of different channels on television all practically owned by the same people... but we still have the illusion of REALLY being the ones choosing what we watch.. with the internet it takes on a whole new meaning.

For example, all of those get rich quick schemes on the internet... buy my ebook and learn how type of thing were it just requires you do the same thing that the guy you bought the stuff from did.. what a joke, yet there are MILLIONS of those sites its damn near impossible to find anything credible or reliable because it is too simple to over-populate the internet with masses of CRAP/misinformation/propaganda ... we all need to RELAX as a planet.. chill out, LOOK at what we have for technology and advances, etc.. and put them to use regardless of money, this is an important time on earth, and we're all being duped into useless junk about money/oil/war/terror/drugs when we should be concerned with the well being of the planet and humanity, reaching different galaxies and really becoming a planet of understanding, tolerant and co-operative people working together to improve ALL of us, and not 10% or .. 49% or 51% ... not even just 95%, but the full 100%.
We all need to go one above language and words, it is the differences in our words and language that cause us all to battle, one God against another, one Color against another, Brother against Brother, word against word, and womb against womb until we fill all of our tombs.

Were all of the Gods not sculpted from the same material?
Were all of the heiroglyphs not painted or carved into similar walls/caves?
Were all of the letters not arranged in similar patterns?
Were all of the words not written on similar materials?
Were all of the thoughts not created inside a human?
(My point with the questions is... at a very fundamental level, the conditions for us to exist are the same)

[edit on 2/22/2008 by PuRe EnErGy]

Don't scare me like that, I'm a final year journalism student!

Newspapers are going to be around for some time yet. Most people get their news from the Internet; that's undeniable. Most newspapers generate their revenue from advertising, the cost of the newspaper is really just in production and delivery.

News desks are changing. Podcasting and syndication are in, while the monolithic daily paper certainly is on its way out.

The problem therein is how newspapers are being managed. The journalists today are required to spit out between 6 or 10 fast stories instead of 2 or 4 well researched stories. With that, most news you read is straight out of some little PR hack at their desk, fed straight to the journalist. No crosschecks, just a reworking of the press release.

Your post is interesting, but a little hard to follow. I think traditional media outlets will be around for a long time yet, at least I personally hope so - and I also hope their integrity holds some acceptable level.

I think traditional media outlets will be around for a long time yet

Sure they will still exist because they have money and a popular name, although... they might as well be comic books.

I apologize and I know there is lots happening right now, especially thanks to the internet but I think this is far more serious than the major companies let on, not only with news but with music too.

Massive lay-offs are taking place, and they are trying to rewrite the whole industry trying to save their own butts, the people have become quite powerful and it's a frightening thing, and very hard to hold us all at bay.
It starts with the media and news because thats how ideas get passed around.

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Now this is a good topic and I hope it stays alive and dosen't get black holed by John Lear and the greys.

There's a lot to be said but saying all of it at once will be hard for some to follow so here's some points:

1) Printed media once published is set in stone as they say. Internet news pages are a keystroke away from being edited after they've been put on the web.

Case in point: I saw an article labeled "Video Games Cause Babies Death" on a MSM website. Before I could show it to my friends it had been changed to "Deadbeat Parents" (they didn't believe me). A big difference, but millions probably read that title before it was changed. The article mentioned video games, but that wasn't the crux of the story. If your not proficient at reading comprehension you might have been mislead by the title.

2) Internet news storys are kept on databases by the publisher that can be deleted and lost forever if the publisher so chooses or it's not poperly stored.

Paper copies once distributed are the property of millions of persons, libraries and archives. It's difficult if not impossible to destroy every exisiting record.

3) The time, costs, tradition, and permeanancy associated with paper media normaly requires great detail and hard work in fact finding, news gathering, research, and writing. If only a daily, weekly, or monthly edition is published the reporters, writers, editors, etc must be concise and accurate. They've only got one chance and limited space to get the story out.

There's a lot other points to be made and I hope others will contibute their opinions on this dying media.

All I know is the LA Times has outlasted several other local papers over the years, and apparently still a hot ticket item for people with loads of money - as it was recently bought by Sam Zell.

Hell, why not? The paper CAN be a great item - and the best, and still quickest source of quality LOCAL news. Let the big stories about those lame politicians make waves on cnn.com - give quality, deep, involved stories about what happened in Canoga Park last night. I live here, I want to know.

But I will never find that story on the front page of the cnn website. Ya get it? That type of internet reporting is a long, long way from taking the place of this type of news.

And with an attitude like Zell's, times are a changin' for the LA Times, where reporters are not only allowed to view porn, they are even ENCOURAGED to if it helps them to be more productive..

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I think your right, CNN will never deliver local news like community publishers. But many small town papers are going out of buisness. The television news usually reports on some local stories so that's good.

I don't know much about Sam Zell except that he's a rich buisnessman, which I think made it easy for him to buy the L.A Times. I think when people get as rich as him they buy up things for fun that they can use to boost their fame and interests. They're usually less interested in making huge profits. The problem will come when it's sold to a corporation looking to wring every penny they can out of the Times.

Many newspapers like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc. are going to stick around for years to come. They seem to have adapted to the times by providing electronic and hard copy versions of their product. The internet may help these newspapers because it lowers their distribution costs and can provide them with a larger audience. (Remember, the cost of a newspaper that the reader pays goes towards distribution costs. Newspapers make their money off advertisers.)

Many other newspapers unfortunately will not be able to make it. Many people are not going to buy their local paper if they can read a major newspaper like the New York Times online for free.