Not Comics: Newspapers Saddled With Pension Obligations, Too

David Carr ends this article about the fate of newspapers with a strong endorsement of great journalism as being key to newspapers' future -- a declearation that despite its ringing, defiant quality is wholly unconvincing after the long description of the Miyazaki-type crumbling beast that makes up the bulk of the article. He brings something to the general discussion I hadn't considered: newspapers is also another shrinking industry having to deal with giant pension obligations from when the business was much bigger and routinely profitable. Event then, the most distressing material might be in just how feckless some of the more ballyhooed alternatives to a bunch of dead wood tossed on a doorstep have turned out to be. I suspect there's also an element of people simply not valuing local information anymore, at least not the way they used to, but I'm not even sure how best to express or explain that.

Any significant number of bankruptcies in the newspaper industry would of course have a potential major impact on the newspaper comic strip.
 
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