Tierney Interview Loaded With Wishes, Dreams, Fanciful Things
Do you think that newspapers, as they are now, are still going to exist, or do you see them moving completely online?I think that the printed product will be around 10 years from now. It may be that instead of being 50 cents a day, it’ll be $2.50 a day because I think the price of the product is very low. We may have fewer people reading it, but you know, I really don’t care if people get it on a little reader or PDA. The thought of someone holding a device with a 4-inch by 3-inch screen and reading a long editorial in The New York Times — I don’t see that happening, to be honest with you. I certainly don’t see this mass of people who are over 35 years or 40 years of age doing it because it’s just cumbersome to read it like that.
October 16th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
$2.50 per day = does not exist
October 16th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
The Inquirer tried to sell me a subscription at some book fair last spring. I tried for 10 minutes to explain to them why purchasing news that has been updated 10 times online before the ink is even dry is not a forward-thinking idea.
The only way newspapers will survive 10 years from now is if there is an emphasis on magazine-like articles, in a magazine-like format; or if armageddon comes and we’re back to hot type and Eli Whitney.
October 16th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Gutenberg!! I mean. Not Eli Whitney. Cotton gin, printing press….
October 16th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Maybe you’re on to something there. I’d totally buy a newspaper made out of cotton.