Are there reasons for optimism for older media models, such as print newspapers?
Wyshynski: As I guy who worked for a newspaper for nearly a decade, I refuse to believe newspapers are going to disappear. Even if every shred of evidence points to their demise. The notion that every motel in the U.S. not having ample copies of USA Today to hand out to guests is something I can’t wrap my brain around. The people need their pie charts. But who knows how the news will reach us in 10 years? Maybe we’re all limited to just a Sunday edition. Who knows? Sturm: I don’t think so. The cows are out of the barn now. Just like radio, it is really the fault of the bosses of this industry who ignored the competition of the times until it was too late. I suppose there will always be a place for the newspaper on some level, but as far as enjoying the greatest sportswriting available, I imagine it will now move, as many of their best writers have, to the computer. The sportspage in the newspaper has become more and more wire content and less and less original content from the guys who
