Pages, Print, Pulp
Yesterday L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein reported that Variety editor Tim Gray and various entertainment reporters at the trade have been telling publicity execs that if they give casting scoops to any of Variety‘s online competition, the paper won’t run their big announcement stories in print, relegating them to online posts only.”
Gray confirms this to Goldstein: “We’ll put the [already-posted] story on the web — for the record — but we won’t put it in the print edition.”
The “print edition”? As Goldstein notes, “Many of the younger studio executives, managers and agents in town probably haven’t seen a print copy of Variety in years, preferring to get their news from web alerts sent to their BlackBerries.”
I had a wake-up moment yesterday morning. I’d just come back from a diner with copies of the N.Y. Daily News and New York Post, and I threw them on top of a small pile of newspapers in the kitchen that I’ll eventually recycle. And I suddenly stopped and looked at all that newsprint, that weight, that adder of clutter, that metaphor for the past, that waste of lumber and household space, that unsightly annoyance. And I said to myself, “What a waste newspapers have become.”
I may have said this to myself once or twice before over the last ten years, but I said it with real conviction this time. There’s only one specific circumstance in my life in which newspapers are really and truly welcome, and that’s when I’m sitting down alone in some European cafe. Then I regard newspapers as dear friends. And I guess you could add the solace of reading newspapers on trains (i.e., until trains start providing wifi-on-the-go). But in every other instance you can have ‘em.
I hope everyone has gone paperless on their bills too.
If immediacy is your only concern, which is true of agents, you would abandon newspapers. But you can’t do w/o the good ones if you want to read about anything in depth without spending hours at a computer. I still read the NYT at home & enjoy it when I”m sitting down alone almost anywhere — airports, airplanes, trains, any restaurant, hotels. Guess there’s no hope for me!
I used to be a voracious newspaper reader.
Then i got an iPhone, and now a Blackberry and a Kindle.
I lived in LA for a while, and after a year or so I was out of the habit of buying one.
Now back in London I am used to sipping my morning espresso with CNN, and the NY Times on my BB.
I used to find the Sunday Times a delight – now I find it unweidy and daunting.
I still read 4/5 papers a day, but all online.
I will be an iPad or similiar customer although it may not be Day One.
You should welcome it. Thanks to the web you are now in my Top 10 daily sites. I read you more often than The Guardian.
Once the iPad is ubiquitous (i.e, after versions 2.0 and especially 3.0 have been developed and made available), print will be totally eradicated for everyone except the boomer-aged sentimentalists who can’t/won’t give up the delicious sensual comfort of holding a folded newspaper in their hands, especially while travelling.
… and bookstores, news stands and neighborhood libraries will cease to exist. Print shops will close down. Online sales, production and editing work will be cheaply outsourced overseas.
So, remind me, how are we supposed to get employment in this country back up?
And eventually, an LCD iPad device WILL be as thin as a sheet of paper — fold it up in your pocket, unfold it to the size you want and then read and interact with anything in the world. Hell, imagine everyone with their heads buried in these “newspaper” and they’re also all talking to them for voice-recognition transcription.
“Once the iPad is ubiquitous (i.e, after versions 2.0 and especially 3.0 have been developed and made available), print will be totally eradicated for everyone except the boomer-aged sentimentalists who can’t/won’t give up the delicious sensual comfort of holding a folded newspaper in their hands, especially while traveling.”
As much as I love the idea of having a really nice digital reader like the iPad, I don’t think newsprint will go away for a long time,and not just for boomers. For instance, kids are keeping vinyl alive. For younger types, older mediums are often a signal of integrity, and that counts as something to them.
Ponderer, newspapers are dying because print costs keep skyrocketing, circulation is down precipitously, and advertising dollars are drying up. A paper edition of the news cannot survive as the kind of niche item you are describing.
“A paper edition of the news cannot survive as the kind of niche item you are describing.”
I’m not at all convinced about that. I think you speak truth when it comes to your traditional daily paper, but I think there’s tons of room for very specific niche-oriented news-driven print publications.
The Times and the Sunday Times in the UK are going to charge a pound a day for reading online now.
I just spoke with a reporter for a hometown magazine-styled newspaper. It comes out once a week, filled with ads for porno shops and whatnot, and it’s given out free around town. It hasn’t had the drop in readership that newspapers have had, nor has it undergone the “slimming” that has been seen in many daily papers.
She said that their paper is doing just fine. I was somewhat shocked, actually, but there are some papers doing well despite the internet.
Still would rather see them all disappear and go paperless.
I don’t want to see print disappear, because its tactile nature allows it to be passed on from person to person. If, say, you’re poor and can’t afford internet service, and the lines at the library are always ridiculously long, chances are good you can find a newspaper someone threw out.
There is something that few people are thinking about, which is that as technology advances, access decreases to those who can’t pay for it. Where previously once you bought a TV you could count on free programming, no more after the digital conversion. And those digital converters are a joke: I get exactly four channels here in L.A. – KTLA, “this”, one Spanish, and one Korean – and that’s on a good day. Soon it will be the same with newspapers – when they’re gone, only the rich who can pay for the iPads and related technology will be informed about world events, and that’s only if they even give a flying fudge brownie to read about them in between visits to porn sites and Youtube. You think the Eloi are stupid now, just wait!
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