[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

This is a pretty comprehensive look at the future of newspapers. Although some FReepers will disagree with the premise in the first paragraph; I think that (prior to the Internet) it's true. TV is too glib and focused on the entertainment value of news. Radio is too ephemeral. Movies are an entertainment medium -- the recent eruption of crockumentaries only underscores this. Movies are good for propaganda -- not for enlightenment. The era of the movie news reel is over.

Of course, the notion that newspapers are the most useful bit of the media is to be expected from a newspaper article. (Despite being published weekly in a newsmagazine format, The Economist considers itself a newspaper, not a magazine. Don't ask me what the difference is.)

NewAssignment.Net sounds like a significant development -- I wonder whether it will allow equal access to conservatives and liberals, or whether it will be even more biased than most MSM newspapers.

[denydenydeny]

I love the newspaper, I just hate when it's used to indoctrinate me into a belief system that I despise.

I still plunk down sixty cents every day for a New York Post. I just refuse to patronize leftist newspapers.

[toddlintown]

The day the Chicago American went from 7 cents to a dime, I knew it was over.

[Freedom4US]

A decade later, two reporters from the Washington Post wrote a series of articles that brought down President Nixon and the status of print journalism soared.

Amongst print journalists, anyway. There's your answer.

[TASMANIANRED]

Let em crumble.