Context changes everything. Yes, yes, deconstructionism. OK. Fine.
But while streaming ‘All the President’s Men’, (released in 1976 detailing events earlier in the 70′s), I was distracted repeatedly by the amount of paper present everywhere - palpably present – in the film.
OK, sure it’s a film about a newspaper – the newspaper business – so that’s a stylistic choice that makes sense – the film opens and closes on macro-closeups of ink on paper. But I doubt anyone involved in the production suspected that in the lifetime of the film’s stars the newspaper/newsprint industry would begin to collapse.
It is collapsing. The New York times won’t have a daily printed version in a decade’s time. Sunday sure. Who doesn’t love reading the Sunday New York Times with a cup of coffee and a bagel. But the rest of the week? You can read that on your iDevice.
We’re speeding ahead here folks – there’s been a break – a fissure between the analog and digital worlds – and we’re heading towards…what?
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Related links:
Jeff Jarvis’ blog detailing the death of the industry that used to employ him
How Long Till Blu-ray is Declared Dead?
Nixon Resigns – Or, Is this One Clip Better than Frost/Nixon?
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And I hate that. I still prefer having a paper in hand than scanning the web for news.
I can absorb everything that's going on with a newspaper – I am not “told” what to read by what's on the front of someone's web site, and don't have to search for the rest that's buried within the site.
yep i hear ya – what people are paying for with a newspaper now is the 'experience' rather than the content – i think with the advent of commercially viable electronic ink we'll get flexible digital paper – that will speed the end of the conventional newspaper -
nooo! nnoooooo! it's all a rummmor! don't belive the hype! ;) j/k i work for a newspaper…in the WEB department! :P i've worked for newspapercompanies for the last 8 years and believe me the speed of the changes, and people's approaches to dealing with those changes are pretty stunning…one publisher wanted an itunes delivery approach of news content…they didn't understand the whole 'google it and it's free' concept ;)…i got told recently that the future was NOT on the desktop but on the phone! and i just lay my head on the conference table and tried to think of a happy place….
nooo! nnoooooo! it's all a rummmor! don't belive the hype! ;) j/k i work for a newspaper…in the WEB department! :P i've worked for newspapercompanies for the last 8 years and believe me the speed of the changes, and people's approaches to dealing with those changes are pretty stunning…one publisher wanted an itunes delivery approach of news content…they didn't understand the whole 'google it and it's free' concept ;)…i got told recently that the future was NOT on the desktop but on the phone! and i just lay my head on the conference table and tried to think of a happy place….