[Leica] In defence of the newspapers

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

Sometimes rather than just giving up, "re-engineering" is the way to 
survive when paradigm shifts, because often what use to work, will 
still work and work well. You just need to figure out which part is 
the gem and which parts are the crud. Even in the fast technology 
field, for example, the death of mainframe has been predicted in 
1980s, 1990s, 2000s and right now, IBM is still making tons of money 
with their mainframe business. Do the machines look remotely similar 
to the machines in 2000s, 1990s, or 1980s? Hardly. What was good with 
the mainframe was the business model and practices and they kept that 
portion while evolving the outdated underlying technology.

So what was good with journalism? The in depth analysis. The quality, 
the editorial integrity. For newspaper to survive, they need to 
figure out how to preserve their strength in a changing world.

At 10:53 AM 4/10/2008, Tina Manley wrote:

>That's not really what it says.  It says that based on a 
>mathematical model, newspapers would make more profit if they didn't 
>cut staff, as they are doing now.
>
>"Since the start of 2007, Time Warner Inc.'s Time Inc. said it would 
>cut 289 jobs, and the New York Times Co. announced plans to shed 125 
>jobs and close foreign bureaus for its Boston Globe newspaper."  and

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