Re: Newspapers are doomed?

From: John Gaskill <gm_at_info-central-usa.com>
Date: Tue 19 Sep 2000 10:53:23 -0500

MARGARITA <b_o_n_a_at_hotmail.com> WROTE:
> Hi, I've beed doing a research on Internet vs.
> newspaper advertising recently and I got a feeling that
> the world is not big enough for both of them. To quote
> Ted Turner from Time Warner: "I wouldn't want to be in
> the newspaper business. I think the Internet is going
> to eat them first" (Fortune, Jan 10,2000)

TO WHICH ALEC ELLIS <alece_at_glopro.com> REPLIED:
> With the invention of hand helds, palm tops, laptops
> etc... newspapers are now going to have to die out. We
> do not have endless resources... but media companies
> can invest in discs or the new credit card type of
> engineering, etc. Things are getting smaller and more
> powerful.
>
> If you could shine your news on a wall and read it
> clearly with the new digital presentations (not TV
> resolution which has always made reading on TV too
> difficult for lengths of time) this would reduce the
> need for paper wasted every day by daily's, mags, etc.

What do you do about people walking in front of
the wall interrupting the view?

What about when you are sitting in an airline terminal
waiting for a flight?


P.S. *********** Don't Forget to Recycle *************


> If you could go to the park sit in the sun and have
> your favorite News channels (Net style) pumped into a
> wireless hearing aid, having been programmed from the
> TV, Net, etc, and forward them like CD controls.

The average slow reader cruises along at two to
three hundred words per minute. Good readers
at five hundred per and up...

T.V. or radio news readers speak at about one hundred
twenty words per minute. Very fast talking occurs at
upwards of 150 wpm. Talk becomes almost unintelligible
at over two hundred words per minute except to trained
professionals like court reporters.

T.V. and radio are great for headlines, but terrible for
news in depth. Would you rather spend 90 minutes listening
to something you could read in twenty and use the saved
hour for something else?

> If you could have "newspapers" that re-build them
> selves, i.e. a foldable screen that is updated each
> time you open it..... like a newspaper, a thin flat
> screen with new "wireless" technology...

Part of the beauty of printed news media is that
articles you want to read or save can be marked or
clipped for later.

With a limited size foldable screen, how do you return
to articles that caught your eye but went unread because
you didn't have time to read them when you last unfolded
your device?

No, newspapers are unlikely to die altogether, only
keep changing with the times.

My $0.02

John Gaskill
gm_at_info-central-usa.com





Received on Tue Sep 19 2000 - 10:53:23 CDT