spreading alarmist rumors

I forget which of four magazines it was in (I think the Atlantic) but I hadn't realized the New York Times was facing such a debt crunch in May. Pure speculation by the writer as to whether newspapers will abandon hard copy altogether much sooner than expected. It is difficult to believe that the NYT has only one million print subscribers worldwide. (I don't know how many cities print in the US print the newspaper...and of course any newspaper in the world could have been doing the same thing in terms of making print copies available on a same-day basis. The problem being, of course, that there is no reason to schlep tons of newsprint around when the same text and pictures are available online instantly, and for free, a business model that has not generated enough advertising to pay the bills.)

I had noted a January 12 story regarding the fact that a host of independent unpaid bloggers couldn't match the reportorial and contextual resources of a publication like the New York Times. It remains to be seen whether the Huffington Post can fill the gap, as the writer in the Atlantic(?) thinks.

I restrained myself from posting an item yesterday or the day before regarding some adroitly juxtaposed NYT stories; the distinction between the print edition and the online one is that though I would have read the first story, I probably wouldn't have bothered to click on the link for the other story, which leapt out at me when I saw the ensemble together in its entirety.