fishwrap seppuku
A feature on 5 ways the newspapers botched the web. This list is only the tip of the iceberg. I remember an alt-weekly trade show back in ‘96(?) where there was a booth promoting a system whereby readers could print out an entire issue of a newspaper from the convenience of their home computers.
Watching the various editors and publishers flounder with the Internet for years was incredible. You could tell that none of these people really wanted their new ventures to succeed; they secretly wanted to be back in the 1920’s with a gin in hand and a jaunty fedora with a “press” tag tucked into the band.
