Out of Print

Eric Alterman's 'Out of Print' article created a looming cloud over all media that i think is not necessary or needed. The statistics are relevant and should not be set aside but used rather to find a solution to the media problem rather than forecasting the death of newspaper and all print media.
I think today we are in a critical place in the country. This looming digital revolution that people seem to be running scared from should be exciting and we should be looking for ways to leave the old models of media behind and look to new models we can create from scratch. For the first time since the invention of newspapers we have a change to create a new model, a new way to look at print mediea and all media for that fact. And it is articles like these that do not inspire such efforts but rather inspire more people to look at the media and think more negative things about it.
I wanted to scream DUH for most of the article. None of this information was new or shocking to me. of COURSE people want to go to the internet. The exact same information and stories are in teh exact same format are on both the internet and on the paper itself. Print media needs to get with it. They need to change one or the other. The Wall Street Journal is a good example of this. Their home page is filled with stories that aren't exactly on the front page of the newspaper or stories that didnt even make it into the newspaper. However, after a minute or two it is not hard to find the link to the front page of hte paper. why would people pay for the paper when they get the same thing on the internet whenever they want to for free??
None of this however is a suprise, none of this should scare us either though. People need to realize there are different ways to look these facts, there are ways to use it to fix the problems.