How the newspaper industry tried to invent the Web but failed.
It would be easy to accuse editors and publishers of being clueless about the coming Internet disruption and to insist that the industry's proper reward for decades of haughty attitude, bad planning, and incompetence is bankruptcy.
But newspapers have really, really tried to wrap their hands around the future and preserve their franchise...
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Newspapers did try to adapt to the online world rather early, but failed in the imagination department. Now we are beginning to hear of both small and large newspapers discontinuing their print editions in favour of going totally online. People are beginning to look to their iPhones or other media device to read their "papers" as well as keep up with the news on an instant basis. I do not think print newspapers will disappear tomorrow, but perhaps within 5-10 years they will be mostly history.