From today’s edition of CBS’s Sunday Morning program (which you may have missed if you were watching the Dear Leader appear on another network), Jeff Greenfield reports on the headline the newspaper industry would rather have buried — the demise of the great metropolitan daily.
On the same theme, the featured speaker on C-SPAN’s program The Communicators today was Tom Rosenstiel, Director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, talking about the think tank’s State of the News Media 2009 report, and the industry’s future.
Update: Jack Shafer at Slate argues that it’s time to kill the idea that newspapers are essential for democracy…
