Blame Al Gore

Something else to blame Al Gore for.

Philip Stone writing on Follow the media says that as the Internet is killing newspapers?

If there is any one politician the world can thank for ensuring that America embraced the Internet it is probably Al Gore. During his political life, and especially as vice-president in the Clinton administration, he moved Congress, and the federal government, to adopt and accept the infant that he called the information highway.

But seriously lets not forget the benefits that the internet has brought to journalism,noteably the lower of the cost of publication,the chance for readers to comment and the masses of information that the journalist now has at his/her fingertips.

Newspapers must and to be fair already do embrace the new medium.

And a stark reminder of what happens if they dont

A journalism professor at the University of North Carolina, named Philip Meyer, has done some studies about the decline of American newspaper readership. His extrapolation of the data shows that, if newspapers do nothing to change their ways, they will lose their very last reader in the year 2044. In October, if you want to mark your calendars. “On the stock exchanges, the value of newspaper shares has declined. Of the dwindling number of quality titles in the US, several are being bought up by new owners who seem completely free of nostalgia for the idea of journalism as a public trust.