Rupert Murdoch on the Future of Print: ‘It’s the Editors Who Might Become Obsolete’
Wishful thinking (he did after all cough up a whole lot of dough for the WSJ not that long ago, you may recall) or does Rupert Murdoch actually know what he’s talking about? (We sort of suspect he does,) Rupe spoke to the future of print at a recent lecture series sponsored by the Australian Broadcast Corporation, and boy is he not gentle:
My summary of the way some of the established media has responded to the internet is this: it’s not newspapers that might become obsolete. It’s some of the editors, reporters, and proprietors who are forgetting a newspaper’s most precious asset: the bond with its readers.
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