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Article: A dinosaur adapts: 'unencumbered by the need to squeeze words into a finite space, the internet proved better for me, as the writer, and I'd argue for readers, too, than newsprint.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Sensing the Change)(World Cup (Soccer) on internet)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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Last summer, on a glorious morning in Manhattan, I was sitting on Jimmy Breslin's deck, 16 stories above the Upper West Side, bitching and moaning about how much the newspaper business has changed. As I whined, Breslin almost snorted coffee through his nose.
"Business?" he asked, incredulously.
He put his mug down and waved his hand at me, dismissively. "The business," Breslin said, "is gone."
Sometimes, it feels that way. The newspaper game my generation got into 25 years ago has changed dramatically. At many papers, circulation is falling, and the money growing on classified trees that let us do just about anything is gone. The bean counters ...