Morrie the Toupee Salesman

I love the perspective of this reporter:

Burka looked shocked at the answer, saying, “Once e-paper becomes feasible, newsprint will be gone. And the news in newspapers is a great thing to transfer to the Web, so that kind of journalism will never disappear.”

It was an understandable defensive statement. Ingram’s job rides on newspapers keeping up high circulation numbers and staying alive amidst the 24/7 online news cycle.

I’d like to point out that both Daniel and the interviewer from DigitalJournal.com have jobs that depend upon websites keeping up high traffic numbers and visitors spending less time with newspapers, television, etc. If you’re going to point out ulterior motives, at least be fair about it. Also, I think “understandable defensive” should have been “understandably defensive.”

Visiting my parents on a Saturday still brings me some nostalgia as they get 4 newspapers on that day. And it’s also enjoyable because the newspapers still have close to a monopoly on intelligent writing.