[1Old Pro]

About 20 years ago I was in the gloried presence of an egotistical, overblown journalism professor in LA who looked at me and told me that in 10 years my newspaper would be shut down

I'd say he was visionary if in 1982 he predicted what we now know to be the world wide web. I sincerly believe newspapers will bite the dust as we know them today.

[jraven]

He didn't predict the world wide web. He said the papers would FOLD basically and printing newspapers on newsprint would cease to exist within 10 years. If you research this you'll find that Knight Ridder, Copley Press and others put a lot of money into the concept of the electronic newspaper and not much happened. All these papers have websites but the web has not led to a sharp decline in newspaper circulation, staff being fired, etc. Newsprint editions continue and the web compliments it. He was not a visionary because the precise projects he talked about flopped and my old paper is still thriving.