Not Comics: Bill Wyman On Newspaper Failure & Why Reasons Aren’t Discussed

I've been meaning to say so for a few days, but I thought this was a pretty good article from someone named Bill Wyman on the decline of newspapers. I don't agree with all of Wyman's assumptions (or would state them differently) nor do I feel the proposed solutions always work (it's my understanding certain newspapers saw gains in the '70s not by ignoring world issues but by consistently tying them into local concerns, an approach that seems wholly worthwhile), and I still think there are reasons left unexplored. For instance, Wyman cites slow technological change in newsrooms, but I'd say an even more worrisome trend is that when technological change has come to many newsrooms it has rarely come with an adjustment in expectations or workload. Wyman gets at this a bit when he notes that a big newspaper could essentially fire all of their culture writers and install dueling columnists to cover through original reporting what used to be the beat for eight or maybe even ten people including a lot of wire service material. Anyway, it's an aggressive piece and full of food for thought.
 
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