Read All About Me Writing All About It

One of the problems with the newspaper industry is that, as it changes or dies, people have to read a lot about it. The reason, of course, is that the industry consists of writers! But also there is an increasing social trend to introspection or self-conscious irony, which naturally enough tends to be strongest in people of literary (ha) or artistic (HA!) temperment. So you get a lot of conspicuous thrashing around by nominally print journalists.

Let's say I compared the printed page of news to the horse and buggy. The latter went out of date, I could say, why not the former? The response from my fellow newspaper people would likely be, but news and information is timeless! So is travel. But people found a better way to get around without staring at a horse's ass all day. Similarly, it seems likely that people will find a way to read about what interest them without dealing with a horse's ass, i.e. newspapers and reporters.

But who knows what will happen. Reports of newspaper's death are greatly exaggerated and perhaps delivered with too much joy.