Comments on: The Christian Science Monitor to Abandon Print

By: GW

GW — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:24:17 +0000

As new member of your feed, I should tell you I’m thinking of blogging about this myself. I had the distinct pleasure of doing many national news features for them out of New Orleans from 2000-2004. They seemed to run out of free-lance money for stories in the South when the free-lance correspondent was kidnapped in Baghdad.

Maybe it will work out for them online, but I’m sure the budget for staff and free-lance will not be the same.

Non-profit seems the way to go for many great mags, like Harper’s.

We are making some headway over here in Locust Forkland, Alabama : )

GW
LocustFork.Net

By: Nathan Eldridge

Nathan Eldridge — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:32:54 +0000

@Werner, in 1998, if you had any money then and I asked you to bet on if you would be shooting film on commercial jobs in 10 years, would you have bet? Death of film has happened and now we are facing the death of print, (T-55 is no longer and this was great stuff). I hope I’m wrong, but instead of hugging the tree that will someday turn into a newspaper or a magazine maybe we stay ahead of the curve and be proactive.

By: Werner

Werner — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:35:56 +0000

Nathan: A printless environment in 10 years? If I had money right now I would bet any sum against it.

By: Paul McEvoy

Paul McEvoy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:57:24 +0000

I find reading stuff online more and more annoying. It makes me uptight because I’m on the computer so much as it is. My eyes are getting screwed up from never switching focus points (seriously).

I’ve recently been getting the print edition of the NY Times and find I read it slowly, over the day (or days). And finding articles in it that I’d never have read online. Ditto the New Yorker. A print free world sounds seriously unfun to me.

By: Nathan Eldridge

Nathan Eldridge — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:41:08 +0000

I’ve been following this change in media and the passing of information very closely. I’m surprised at how many people still think the print edition is the best way to get information. One compatriot was in my face about how his Sunday ritual would be threatened and there isn’t anyway NYTimes would abandon it’s print run. I disagreed. And I think, but do wonder that within 10 years we will be in a printless environment.
But will the New York Times be online only?