Yesterday’s hearings on the fate of the newspaper industry will give us something to talk about for a while. I don’t expect government will be a major player in the future of the industry, though.
Here’s a warm-up piece from NPR, and a piece of the coverage. Google can give you the 373 other identical or nearly identical articles. That’s part of the problem, isn’t it?
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“Look for the Newspaper Shakeout’s Likely Survivors”
http://tinyurl.com/c5wl7z
Note this: “To keep high-quality reporting and writing, they have to pay decent salaries. To mountain quality, they simply have to start charging.”
And to mountain quality, they’ll have to hire (or rehire) some high-quality editors and copy editors.