"Goodbye to Newspapers?"

This article was very sad in terms of the reality that a lot of new companies specifically those in the field of traditional newspapers are failing at a large scale. The companies are just not being run in the light of putting out news to the community and instead are run like a typical economically efficient business, which means budget cuts and staff cuts, which in turn means that the quality of the news drops at a dramatic rate. While I agree with many points of this article, I do not think that the newspapers are purely failing from the business end or the journalistic end as he mentions at the end of the article with the war misrepresentation and failing to act. I think a lot of the loss in readers comes strictly from the readers themselves. While the internet may just be an accumulation of real articles by a variety of news companies, only the yahoo or google versions are read so most newspapers get minimal reports in views. There is also the argument of the loss of reading in general due to the internet and leading media technology (refer to previous post on "Is Google making us Stupid?"). Having televised news has also accompanied the destruction in readership of newspapers. Most people come home from work, eat, some dinner, and watch the news. If they can get the news while blankly staring at the screen, reclining on the sofa, and letting their brain shut off, why would they do it any other way? I think that the last part of the article about the misrepresentation by the media on the war in Iraq, while pertinent, is still the same issue that newspapers faced even before this era of low readership and increased media technology. It is sad to see that the prestigious journalist is being replaced by a plastic celebrity that pretends to be in the know about the real world. The news is also very skewed to the what people really want to hear about (or what they think the people want to hear). I feel like newspapers are fairly doomed in a large extent due to the general public failing at following on current events and caring about more than Justin Beiber.