Newspapers to go completely online in the future?

Posted by Carolyn Lo on March 11, 2008 at 9:13 AM

Newspaper readership results from the Newspaper Audience Databank in the US for 2007 show that readership is shifting to the Internet in the form of videos and blogs. NY Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. had remarked, last year, "I really don't know whether we'll be printing The Times in 5 years, and you know what? I don't care either."

The Star columnist Rosie DiManno believes if newspapers go completely online, articles will lose substance, original thought, and story-telling. According to DiManno, people go to the Internet "not for illumination but for validation of their own beliefs and to group-bitch."

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Source: thestar.com