Title is a precious homage to master Headline writer Tom Mangan.
Tom survived yet another round of job cuts at one of America’s most important newspapers, the San Jose Mercury News in California.
By now he must be Publisher. How many people could they have left on staff?
Tom’s insight into the future of newspapers:
Here’s what I think will happen: everybody who bought newspapers in the last three or four years will go bankrupt because they bought the top of a market held aloft by the phony housing boom, and some clever operative like Warren Buffett will come in and buy them up at pennies on the dollar.
Most of us will be forced to get real jobs, like school teachers or dogcatchers.
I knew the first time I clicked on a link in my circa-1995 Netscape browser that print newspapers were toast. Thirteen years later, it’s finally playing out. It had to. …
Dave Adlard likes newspapers. Cannot forsee a day when he can’t get a newspaper delivered to his cabin in North Idaho.
I’d like to think he is right.
But I’ve met a few inside the biz who do not think papers can survive in their current awkward, nostalgic form.
Rick McCharles 