I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.
There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.
The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.
From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.
Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.'