http://www.platformonomics.com/2008/06/circling-the-drain/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.platformonomics.com/2008/06/circling-the-drain/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Charles Fitzgerald Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:54:41 +0000 http://66.147.242.168/~platfor7/2008/06/circling-the-drain/#comment-131 <p>Brier,The problem isn't when the last newsprint paper rolls off the press (I agree it will be decades). The problem is even if management has truly figured out they are in the journalism business and not the newspaper business, it is tough to make that kind of a transition with the primary business in decline.Print runs will keep getting smaller, ad revenues will decline and the balance sheet is burdened by all those printing presses, trucks, etc.I'd love to see what a modern news operations looks like these days. Lets talk about it next time we talk.- Charles</p> Brier,The problem isn’t when the last newsprint paper rolls off the press (I agree it will be decades). The problem is even if management has truly figured out they are in the journalism business and not the newspaper business, it is tough to make that kind of a transition with the primary business in decline.Print runs will keep getting smaller, ad revenues will decline and the balance sheet is burdened by all those printing presses, trucks, etc.I’d love to see what a modern news operations looks like these days. Lets talk about it next time we talk.- Charles

]]> http://www.platformonomics.com/2008/06/circling-the-drain/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Brier Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:08:42 +0000 http://66.147.242.168/~platfor7/2008/06/circling-the-drain/#comment-130 <p>Hi Charles, maybe the best news here is that we've got smart people who care enough to pay attention to the fate of papers. Thanks for weighing in. It was actualy reassuring to hear Microsoft's boss predicting the death of newsprint - based on the success of the paperless office predictions of the previous guy, I think that gives us at least a few more decades.The grain of salt that people missed is that MSFT and the other two big Internet ad sellers are scrutinizing print because papers still get the biggest share of local ads, and the biggest share of advertising overall.Unfortunately the newspaper industry seems to be frantically slurping the big three's kool-aid, trying to get all web 1.5/2.0, just as that cycle's winding down.Would you like to come down and check this place out from the inside?</p> Hi Charles, maybe the best news here is that we’ve got smart people who care enough to pay attention to the fate of papers. Thanks for weighing in. It was actualy reassuring to hear Microsoft’s boss predicting the death of newsprint – based on the success of the paperless office predictions of the previous guy, I think that gives us at least a few more decades.The grain of salt that people missed is that MSFT and the other two big Internet ad sellers are scrutinizing print because papers still get the biggest share of local ads, and the biggest share of advertising overall.Unfortunately the newspaper industry seems to be frantically slurping the big three’s kool-aid, trying to get all web 1.5/2.0, just as that cycle’s winding down.Would you like to come down and check this place out from the inside?

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