[gyeh]

The "Newspapers Are About to Die" message has been repeated over and over again since the mid 90's. Because of the recent high-profile closings/cost-cuttings of newspaper organizations, the last 15 years of gloomy prognostications have essentially become reality (mainly precipitated by the current economy).

Similar to Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid and global warming, these are train-wrecks that can be seen miles and miles way. Unfortunately for newspapers, it seems they are in the middle of one.

[eli]

Yes, newspaper readership has been declining for some time, but ad revenues didn't really start to tank until the past few years (http://www.npr.org/blogs/globalpoolofmoney/images/2009/04/pa...)