[Peace-discuss] Newspapers too dumb to live

[C. G. Estabrook]

"In the fourth issue of Wired magazine, in the fall of 1993, just as the 
Internet was entering public consciousness, Michael Crichton, the author of The 
Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, wrote an essay arguing that newspapers were 
doomed because they were too dumb. As information became cheaper, more 
plentiful, and easier to get, consumers, he argued, would become ever more 
immersed in their specific interests and understand that their more generally 
oriented paper -— at least in the matter of a reader’s special interest, but 
also by inference everything else -— had no idea what it was talking about."

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/wolff200908