"So are newspapers dying? Is this the question? The answer is: of course not. Then again, yes. Just not in the way you think. They are merely shifting, peeling back, juggling approaches and reorganizing ideas, all in order to be reborn. In order to adapt. In order to compete and breathe and thrive and become the new-new thing, which will be the same as the old thing, only with better reception and a universal adapter and a solar-powered battery."

For the rest of the terrific column by Mark Morford/S.F. Chronicle, click here. (BTW, thanks to Blogmeister KenS, you can read the column Morford wrote about being a Spokane Boy Scout in Scoutmaster Jim West's days here.

Hat Tip: Green Libertarian

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