Newspaper readership is still growing in India.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.
In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.
It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not true at all any more. It's one of the world's fastest growing and most vibrant markets for books, especially in English.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.
Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
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.