Ah yes. The myth that journalism was always some kind of rough and tumble system where reporters once hunted down and broke stories for the joy of it, when there were most newspapers in New York they all worked hard to inform the public with the truth and then, doggone money, ruined it. Just as it ruined movies and ruined television. Because as we all know, since the dawn of time, everybody works for nothing. I would feel remorse when I hear about the demise of print journalism were it not coming from reporters on television.

Print journalism has been dying for a century. It's been dying for more than that since the conglomerations of Hearst and Luce began buying up individual newspapers. Ameircan newspapers have been politically biases since they were founded; they merely shift their alleigances over who owns them.

I can never reach the younger people on this blog, I don't expect to have any more luck with all of you READERS NEVER MADE AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU IN THE JOURNALISM COMMUNITY HAVE EVER WANTED TO BELIEVE. That's as much a myth as that our attention is a commodity. For the record, my attention is a commodity. Every individual's attention is a commodity.

And don't pretend that the newspaper was anything but a convenience of the time. It was always going to be less relevant with the scope of progress. You in the media have this mythic concept of your craft that I have never had ; it sounds like you've been watching so many inspirational Hollywood movies about you believe your own press. This isn't a calling, it's a job. And all jobs depend on how much people are going to pay for them. When the automobile came along, it meant the death of the buggy whip. The nature of progress has always been that it leaves people behind. And don't pretend for the least bit that your report is any less objective here: your bias is clear.

Print Journalism was always going to die. We didn't kill it, the internet and Fox news didn't kill it; TV and radio didn't kill it. The slow march of progress killed it. Journalism has been dying for a century. Did you really think it could survie with a generation that thinks tweeting takes too much energy? This was a battle you were never going to win. NEVER. This is how the world works. But don't worry. As long as you write here, you'll find lot's of people to tell you who smart you are, how screwed the world is, and that it would have worked as long as they'd listened to you.