The most recent circulation figures for paper sales in Scotland are in keeping with the downward trend.
As the sales go south so increasingly does their ability to influence the narrative.
These are the end of days for a media business model that has been in place since the late 19th century.
The people who buy newspapers are, in the main, older.
They are my age rather than my son’s generation.
He is a big bright university student, socially aware and erudite he has never bought a newspaper and he probably never will.
He opens the laptop and glances at his smart phone.
He is a digital native as are his two sisters.
The media revolution like all revolutions is a period of chaos.
Journalists who first stepped into a newspaper office over thirty years ago are now required to blog, podcast and tweet.
The old lexicon still lingers, “filing”, “copy” ,“sent to the back bench”, but the reality is changed, changed utterly.
The death of Rangers was not only the biggest sporting story in Scotland in living memory it was also the first one where new media led the way.
I understand that people inside the mainstream media tent bridle at that assertion.
However, they reason that they are irked is that they know it to be true.
The tabloids continue to sell in large numbers.
However the trend is downward.
Moreover titles like the Sun are owned by a multinational that sees their business future as digital.
The ease with which they closed the News of the World in the wake of the Millie Dowler scandal is indicative of how little papers sales means to NewsCorp.
There is a rumour in the media village that the print edition of the Guardian might not be long for this world.
Alan Rusbridger has been championing “digital first” for some time now.
The issue for digital publications is whether or not they will survive as online free sheets or will get enough people to go behind the paywall.
I have no idea how this ends, but Ken Auletta just might.
A functioning democracy still needs good journalism and that takes good professional journalists. Just consider for a second the effect that Alex Thomson has had on the Fitba Fourth estate in the last six months.
The Hackgate scandal would not have been exposed without the tenacious work of Nick Davies at the Guardian.
He was derided as “obsessed”, but he knew he was right and he had a brave editor who believed in him.
Society will continue to need his output wherever it appears.
Although Alex Thomson is a television journalist his blogs are hugely influential.
The days when journalists would say that they worked in one sector, broadcast, print of television or radio is gone forever.
Blogs, Podcasts, Twitter, and live streaming turns all of that on its head.
One thing is certain the old media model based on print sales is on its last legs.
As the traditional media is being hit by the digital wrecking ball the colleges continue to turn out excellent young journalists.
They are the future. They’re bright, hardworking and open to the possibilities of the new age.
I find them a joy to work with.
At the same time on Planet Fitba there is a guerrilla media of citizen journalists that grows in quality and confidence.
As a Celtic supporter my own media needs are well catered for online.
This morning, as I do most days, I checked CQN.
I also read an opinion piece by the brilliant Paul Larkin.
In the aftermath of a game I will visit tictactic.
All top quality in their own way.
Professional journalism will survive; it has to for all our sakes.
However, I won’t pretend to know what the final score will be, but Planet fitba is ahead of the game, that’s for sure.
Ben mcginlay
Do you think the governing bodies and the MSM would get involved in a campaign to get rid of sectarianism, similar to the Kick it out campaign for coloured players. The digital era could help with this. As this country it is ignored and brushed under the carpet. The bigots think its ok to act the way they do.
October 22, 2012 at 4:39 pm
hang 'em high
Gentlemen my
sentiments exactly .I honestly believe that if i lived in SCOTLAND ,I COULD never never attend a celtic match PLAYED under the banne of the S F A
October 22, 2012 at 2:02 am
Frankier
Ben – I agree with you even if others don’t. Silence is anything but golden here, it is sitting on the fence. Turnbull Hutton had more guts than Jawwell. Celtic were DESPERATE to get them (sevco) into the SPL. Money counts. Peter’s £600,000 plus bonus has to come from somewhere and at the end of the day they got around 40,000 at the Dundee game, only 20,000 less than they would have got playing the 4th tier team, so I really don’t think the hassle, domestic violence and sectarianism this mob brings to Scottish society is worth the extra coppers. Anyway, Celtic will more than make up the shortfall with assured participation in Europe as long as this horrible mob is kept down. As far as them being “doomed” I’m not so sure. It would be easier to get rid of leprosy than this mob. Silence is cowardice, NOT golden. And by the way, I cancelled my season ticket, which I had for too many years, because of their “golden” silence and I would never even look at their so-called 0£d £!rm ames if they played in my back garden. I would pull down the blinds.
October 21, 2012 at 3:56 pm
Ben mcginlay
I’m sorry to hear you have cancelled your season ticket, but I understand your reason why. You are correct about Turnbull. I just wish Celtic would have said something. But I do agree with others that anything to come out of Parkhead would have been twisted and misquoted to wind up the peepul. This would maybe suit Chick Green because he would defo have used this to his advantage going by his previous rants. I don’t think we will ever rid of the Klan.
October 21, 2012 at 9:25 pm
The Wallace
I remember the promises the ‘new’ microchip technology offered many years ago. One of the main ones, was the thirty five hour week and five weeks paid holiday a year, and as a teenager was surprised the TUC took this piece of tripe in. What it delivered was mass unemployment amongst a large part of our engineering sector (jobs once done by skilled craftsmen, turning, welding, car making and, related to your own trade Phil, printing became robotocised and computerised) and I believe the average working week is now around 49 hours (correct if I’m wrong please), that is if you are lucky to be working. And of course there was the lie about retiring at sixty, there is a need now for the working man (I’m not being sexist I don’t know the proposals for women) to retire at 72. Oh by the way the average working week at the time was 40 hours per week and most people did not have 4 hour commutes either. Although it has delivered for Some of us the ability to work from home. As great believer in trade unionism, like yourself Phil, I hope you can understand my scepticism of the electroncs revolution as a whole.
Enough of the past, back to the present. We all carry devices now that track our every move and provides the Government at GCHQ with all of our telecommunication traffic and probably more. Even in the Republic I would not be surprised. Remember they have used this technology to assassinate so called terrorists without even bringing charges, never mind bringing them to a fair trial.
Now off to the future, imagine, if you will Phil, the day when your oldest grandchild, may God bless them all, the apple of you and your wife’s eye, runs into to your house and instead of pierced ears or are a tattoo, she lifts her golden locks to reveal an input/output port in the side of her head and with a joyful voice cries out,”Look Granddad, I’ve just got myself chipped, everyone’s doing.” Fade out to Twilight Zone Theme.
On another subject, there is a brilliant Dan Breen documentary on youtube.
Hail, Hail.
October 20, 2012 at 9:36 pm
Agent One
Hi All
I just had to add this…Had enough of the lies that the press Sprout,after today its New World Record Pish!!
Well here is the truth.
(UPDATE: Despite reports that Rangers set a world record for a fourth-tier match, they’re still a ways behind Brazilian club Santa Cruz, who had as many as 59,966 fans for a Serie D match last season.)
I REST MY CASE
To Be Continued
Agent One
October 20, 2012 at 8:53 pm
tambutnotbam
Phil,
Has Lord Hodge ruled on Duff and Phelps yet ?
He demanded on 22-06-12 they show him they did not act under a conflict of interest.
I know they gave him their response as reported in their Reoprt dated 24-08-12.
However, did Lord Hodge accept their response as being evidence enough that they did not act under a conflict as claimed by the BBC and now Craig Whyte too ?
Do you know the answer to that Phil ?
October 20, 2012 at 5:34 pm
jomac
Ben.
have to disagree with you.
it was a no win situation if celtic became vocal.
silence is golden and it has been proven right.
watch this space they are doomed…
October 20, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Ben mcginlay
A lot of my friends agree with yourself. But I still think Celtic should keep a wide berth. By actions only. By not accepting the same sponsors etc…still wish Dermot would have kept his feelings to himself if nobody else at Celtic were saying anything. Good, bad or indifferent
October 21, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Martin McM
I agree with The Wallace on people missing out on wider information because they aren’t reading newspapers. Howeveronline media sites may take up some of this role e.g. when looking at the BBC site I often pick up on stories I had no idea I would have been interested in. I think this may be what Phil meant about the news foodstuff us.
October 20, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Chris G
Really interesting piece, Phil. Especially appreciate the links to the external reports — thanks.
October 20, 2012 at 2:06 am
Beeegajay
Time waits for no man.
Nearly 30 years since I experimented with BASIC on 48k (wow!) Spectrum. Biggest successes were hacking ‘Grand National’ and (ahem) renaming all the horses for an alternative, allegedly more amusing, version for friends. That and financially doping ‘Football Manager’ – SERIOUSLY! Hahahaha!
25 years ago saw me as Internal and External Publicity Officer for the local FSN – because I had a pass for the Apple Mac labs (tee hee).
20 years ago – was it an Amstrad we used in work? Everything on floppy disc and formatting text was a total mystery to the uninitiated.
15 years ago – not even a pc at home yet.
10 years ago – a pc under the stairs and fixed dial up connection.
Having also been of the Teletext era newspapers were mainly the reserve of weekends anyway.
Slowly moved across from teletext to BBC and Aertel online for headlines and my fields of interest.
What I have experienced in the last 2 years through social media, wi-fi, smartphone, mobile internet has totally changed my world. Can’t quite agree that we will become more parochial. I have said elsewhere that I once viewed Twitter as a world of trivia and celeb gossip. So wronk! Twitter is what you make it and can be amazingly informative and fun. The links, the speed of messaging, people you’re following retweeting items that they find particularly relevant or amusing (or both) from their areas of interest or expertise. Blah de blah de blah. Used in tandem with blogs, private messaging, Facebook even, decent news websites and trusted investigators there is an amazing toolbox for communication of facts, ideas and humour with a genuine sense of online communities spread around the globe.
Glad the book is doing so well, but doesn’t detract from a wee reminder for those paying attention that the upkeep of this site doesn’t pay for itself and I have to admit, it’s been a while. ;D
Keep at ‘em Phil.
October 20, 2012 at 1:11 am
guilty m'lud
celtic dreams still going strong,lol.hail hail…………..
October 19, 2012 at 11:41 pm
Frankier
Ben – At last year’s AGM at Parkhead I asked Peter Lawwell (in the hallway) as to when Celtic were going to distance themselves from this horrible OF tag. He said I had a good point and that they were “working on it”. He never even stopped in his stride when he was answering me. At this year’s AGM, resolution 10 is dealing with the shirt sponsorship along with r4ng3rs FC and the fact that the term “Old Firm” (I hate printing it) is becoming increasingly unpopular with the supporters who wish Celtic to go it alone even if it means having a charitable organisation on the jerseys. Needless to say, Celtic have recommended that the idea should be shot down at the meeting. So much for them “working on it”. I wish Lawwell had given me a tenth of the time he gave Charles Green even before he became the new sevco owner. They haven’t even enclosed a statement of accounts this year. Maybe they don’t wish to be questioned on Lawwell’s bonus again at this year’s meeting.
October 19, 2012 at 8:30 pm
Ben mcginlay
It makes you wonder if the money men at Celtic park really wanted them to stay in the SPL. If that was true and it did happen I would certainly think long and hard about going back to the games. What a quandary that would be. If it wasn’t for the fans being so vocal I dread to think what would have happened. The powers that be at Celtic have had plenty of opportunities to make statements regarding Scottish football and them. Also to let the fans know that the come first, surely they must know the level of feeling amongst the support. We want no attachment or duplicate sponsorship deals. It sends out the wrong message..
October 20, 2012 at 6:05 am
The Wallace
Is that no wee bit too trite and clichéd an answer to, if not a well worded, but valid argument?
I know the morality and veracity of a lot of the newspapers and their owners is suspect in the extreme at the moment, but don’t you think further down the line that the new technology will be open to just the same or different forms of exploitation of a more serious nature. Once upon a time photographic evidence was fairly trustworthy (apart from Stalin’s air brush experts), but because of the new technology pictures, videos etc.can be so easily doctored, in fact I saw you and Thommo the other night doing a splendid impersonation of the Pet Shop Boys, good luck with that by the way. That coupled with all the monitoring and manipulation by Government, Sales people and Advertisers, I can’t but help get the feeling that I will be looking at the world in a way someone else wants me to look at it. Maybe I’ve followed Celtic too long and have become a bit paranoid.
Hail, Hail.
October 19, 2012 at 8:30 pm
timabhouy
Daily record in a downward spiral !
October 19, 2012 at 8:21 pm
The Wallace
Another thing came to mind when I buy a paper the government, advertisers and other internet spies don’t know what paper I buy regularly, what articles I read or how long I take to read them. With the new technology you couldn’t make a scrapbook of your favourite teams, stars or whatever without some internet salesman up your backside trying to sell you something or telling you you are inadequate in some way. As I said before it’s coming without a doubt, but I am not at all sure what we are giving up.
October 19, 2012 at 6:58 pm
SamBrowneBelt
The Wallace, again I agree entirely. The days of relative privacy or anonymity are long gone, unless you want to be regarded as the odd-bod troglodyte who can’t operate two SmartPhones and an iPad while ordering a double-choco-cappu-latte for five quid!
Maybe I’m just getting old, but “progress” isn’t always progress.
October 19, 2012 at 9:36 pm
The Wallace
I know it’s coming, but what I worry about (and now I’m going back when the newspapers were trusted to a certain extent)is that people buy newspapers for various reasons the football, the racing, the crossword, even just the hatched, matched and dispatched section. And in a great many cases the quality of investigative, informative journalism (no disrespect intended to you or your fine trade, Phil) or even the political stance of the paper came second, but when they had finished with the wee bit that they wanted, they would then go on to digest the rest of the paper and became informed despite themselves. Now the new technology whilst offering lots of scope for those who want it also now allows the average newspaper buyer to avoid entirely the bits that he/she may have read regularly just because they had bought the paper. Now, I fear, that although the news is out there people will become more parochial in what they read. For instance, and this is just for arguments sake, Celtic fans will only read Celtic related sites, and so they may not be as informed of the overall state of the game in Scotland or further afield. And the same goes for the lad who gets the paper for racing and the telly.
My point being that the average person, in my opinion, isn’t going to be rushing about the internet looking for the latest African famine or other such events/tragedies. Ill informed people are easily manipulated and I don’t see how the new technology is going to inform people who for the most part will be looking in to narrower and narrower fields. And I think it is as big, if not a bigger, duty of journalism to get to the people who would not be informed otherwise out of their on volition, than just inform the people that want to know.
I hope I have explained myself properly.
October 19, 2012 at 6:33 pm
Phil Mac Giolla Bhain
In the digital age you don’t find news, news finds you.
October 19, 2012 at 7:09 pm
SamBrowneBelt
The Wallace, I agree entirely. In my own dealings with digital-savvy youngsters I’m astonished, and saddened, at how little they know of world events. But they could tell me the shoe-size of every member of One Direction!
October 19, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Stu
Wallace,
Have to agree. My concern is that with the extinction of print media, you’ll find that people will be drawn to news sources that appeal entirely to their own viewpoint, to the exclusion of all else.
I know that probably sounds strange, since variety should, if anything, increase given that any sort of restrictions on who can get their viewpoint across would cease to exist, and citizen journalism would go stratospheric. However, the simple act of going to a newsagent exposed you to other viewpoints, whether you choose to buy the paper or not.
The idea that people would only ever get their news from The Mail on line should chill most people to the bone.
October 20, 2012 at 10:19 pm
Kenny McCaffrey
Great read Phil, thanks for that. As a long-time ‘inky’ (albeit near the bottom of the food chain on B2B), I really enjoy your views on information delivery.
I do think print will be with us for quite a while, but only as part of a wider, multi-platform business model that every potential consumer can access and afford – but maybe that’s another discussion.
For Scotland, though, Jabba and the guys who think the sports pages rule the roost at places like the Wreckord, are definitely on the way out – and I think we’ve got the Ibrox scandal, their reaction to it, and people like you to thank for that. They deserve everything that’s coming to them. Good work, sir – please don’t stop!
October 19, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Frankier
Neil – Please don’t even call them THE r”ngers, call them sevco and keep calling them sevco until the penny drops. And don’t ever refer to them as being part of the Old Firm despite Celtic, according to their resolutions at the next AGM, being desperate to keep that horrible old worn out phrase in place.
October 19, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Ben mcginlay
I despise the O#d F##m phrase….it lumps us in with them, and suggests that nothing has changed…I hate when ex Celts, football pundits and anyone from Celtic say it…We should keep our distance as much as possible. They aren’t even in our league.DD’s comments did us no favours. We are not bed fellows. Most Newco fans will say it to try and keep the so called relationship seem a reality. Back in the day when Celtic and Oldco were an unholy alliance. Votes in the league and sponsorship for example. They need us, we don’t WANT or NEED them,ever…….
October 19, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Neil
Agreed mate! will do sevco it is
October 20, 2012 at 9:47 pm
jimCB
You’re right Phil about big changes in the printed industry. I was just talking to someone who had read a piece about how ‘eventually’ the New York Times will be paperless. Technology has always changed things. We’re in the digital revolution and its going to have more and more effect on peoples lives. Although correct me if I’m wrong it seems that books and novels have become more and more popular. Then again if you’ve a tablet with the latest Michael Connelly at half the price of the paper version there’s no argument is there? You save the Amazon forest AND if you want the text bigger because your specs don’t work you can do it yourself. I’m in music God help me so I might soon have to get a ‘real’ job. Slainte
October 19, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Phil Mac Giolla Bhain
The music industry has been battered by the digital age-piracy-illegal downloads.
I don’t see a good outcome for this.
October 19, 2012 at 5:18 pm
Bhoydavid
All along during this saga about the dead club,this blog & RTC have told the facts in plain English. For darryl king to say on SSB that the msm can’t put out what the bloggers are due to legal angle is very poor & for me shows them up as the lazy journalists that they are…or they just didn’t want to upset the klan. Surely darryl doesn’t expect us to believe that the bloggers don’t have to make sure what they put out in the big wide world can’t be subject to legal scrutiny.
October 19, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Buffythecat
If the sevco zombies had had the education to desire objectivity as their club ebbed away on a life support machine they would have been better informed to do something about it. CQN, Phil and Pul’s blog as well as the RTC were excellent and way beyond anything that the MSM could cut and paste together. But then again people who can’t think for themselves need someone to tell them what to do.
Sadly it was a case or better dead than read.
October 19, 2012 at 3:46 pm
StevieBC
Agreed Phil: we are currently in a transition period, where the new media is embraced by the younger generation.
The question then is – IMO – when will the battle with online censorship really kick off?
As papers have openly had bias/support for their chosen political parties, what happens when they lose this control/influence ?
We have already seen the attempted introduction of new legislation in the USA this year, [SOPA & PIPA acts], where there could be scope to misuse powers to censor online content.
Similar to abuses of ‘anti-terrorist’ legislation in the UK as a general ‘catch all’ big stick.
Interesting times ahead – but the Bampots must prevail !
October 19, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Phil Mac Giolla Bhain
Agreed we are in a transitional phase.
One thing I did not flag up in the piece (sorry post!) is that the people who run media organisations are in a race to the bottom.
Constant cost cutting and redundancies makes the MSM very vulnerable to PR generated copy.
The virus of churnalism is infecting the mainstream on all platforms, but especially print.
October 19, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Stu
Phil,
It is a race to the bottom, but not quite in the way you mean.
It used to be the case that newspapers formed opinion, and people followed. Unfortunately, with dwindling readership, it’s now the other way around, with newspapers now chasing opinion by trying to appeal to the views of their readership. The Record is probably the worst case, with their constant need to appeal to the baser elements of The Rangers fan base – and yet, it’s a fine line. Pander too little and you lose readers, pander too much and when it all goes wrong, you’re left furiously back-pedalling and trying to justify why they should continue to read you when you’ve clearly misled them.
My main fear is that, almost paradoxically, the explosion in media will make it far easier to hide the truth. It’s a well known tactic that the easiest way to do that it to have as many conspiracy theories on the go as possible, since the truth becomes yet another one, and the more counter arguements, the less credible each one is, including the truth.
October 20, 2012 at 10:36 pm
gordonzola
the etims diary is up there
was very funny yesterday.
also etims was the first high quality site IMO.
can’t be matched by “old media” sites
October 19, 2012 at 2:55 pm
waco
i used to buy 16 news papers every week,the thugs&thieves headline showed me they had a hidden agenda that was contrary to my own beliefs, so i stopped buying from that day on ,since then about 8 years have passed saving me a small fortune ,i still buy magazines and books but i will not pick up a news paper all because they could`nt do the one thing we all thought they done as part of their journalistic work and that is telling the TRUTH ,as you say phil we can spend hours going into the many good forums that populate the net and get a far more balanced spread of stories by very articulate inteligent contributers ,long may it continue as the chip wrappers are on the way out
October 19, 2012 at 2:46 pm
hang 'em high
nice one brother PHIL , a wee question phil, when do sevco have to pay taxes,is it this year ,next year, what is HMRC policy? just a thought please enlighten me thanks have a great day
October 19, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Follow the Money
Just check out the The Daily Revisionist site … there you can read last week’s news today, whereas the ‘bampot” sites have already posted tomorrow’s news, yesterday!
October 19, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Been there...
The thing that’s going to get the newspapers is display technology. There are many cheap prototype displays that, with the passage of the Moores Law will be so cheap in five or so years time that the cost of screen readers will be really low. You’ll be able to buy something equivalent to todays iPad 2 for not much more than the price of a takeaway. These displays will be everywhere and when that happens there will be little need for printed papers.
Think about this. The original iPhone came out 5 years ago and cost £500 or so. Right now you can buy a 4.3″ touch screen 4GB media player with a higher resolution screen for £40. Forty quid! A tenth the price. That fact alone should have Scotland’s newspaper editors reaching for the valium. In 5 years time nobody at all under the age of 50 will be buying printed papers and will be free to get their daily fix of news from any manner of media outlets.
The culture of habit buying newspapers will be almost dead. Five years.
Or around about the time Rangers will be looking to play in Europe again…
October 19, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Neil
please stop calling them Rangers, they are dead, its now “The” Rangers, completely different! not what you read in the papers, dont give the new club air to breath with.
5 years this tribute act might be dead, how long do tribute acts last? 5 years?
October 19, 2012 at 2:49 pm
Been there...
Steady on old bhoy, it’s the first time I’ve missed the opportunity to call them by their new name. Old habits die hard I suppose (kind of like why people are still buying newspapers…).
October 19, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Kieran Gallagher
the media as we know it in Scotland is now dead…they showed their mettle all through the RANGERS saga…hoping that it would all blow over…how they were gleefull when Rangers didn’t go into Administration last October proves the internet bampots were wrong all along….the celtic media led the way all the way!!, McGiollaBhain, Paul Brennan, Paul McConville & the relentless RTC (who ever he or she may be..)will all go down in history
October 19, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Edward McCandless
I Phil there are still journalist & bloggers who
Still put the old establishment on line before
There own.
October 19, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Ben mcginlay
I like a lot of my friends take what’s in the papers with a pinch of salt. The difference being is I haven’t bought a red top newspaper since the ‘thugs and thieves’ headline. The others constantly print half truths and sensationalise nothing stories. This has been their way for a long time. It’s obvious to anyone with a brain and a sense of thinking for themselves that there is spin and biasness at work. What I don’t understand is that some friends still purchase this crap knowing this is the case. On the other side of the coin is there must be a fair amount of readers who totally believe all that they read in the contents. This is where the MSM are major offenders as regards to the Rankers saga. And if the Klan want to look to for blame.!!! The MSM in Scotland while pandering to them have actually been a catalyst to their downfall by sitting on stories and portraying a theme of financial difficulties that wasn’t much to worry about. When the truth came out, they looked for a scapegoat and bad guy. Step forward Craigie Whyte….Public enemy no1
October 19, 2012 at 1:09 pm
Neil
Spot on Ben!
Big photgraphs, sreaming headlines and two paragraphs of nonsense.
Neil
ps just dont tell Cooper48 ;0)
October 19, 2012 at 1:49 pm
greenallover
Another excellent piece Phil.To listen to tired old cliche ridden hacks like Keevins,Baillie,Guidi,King etc is actually becoming painfull.For so called professional men to be so out of touch with the modern workings of their business is appalling.The sooner they are consigned to the dustbin of modern journalism the better.I remember at the very peak of the rangers tax crisis listening to King on SSB claiming he had never read the RTC blog! Sad but he was probably telling the truth.Keep leading the field.
October 19, 2012 at 1:09 pm
john
There was a good BBC docu on the demise of print media in USA .. it should be on the iplayer and focussed on the NY Times with David Carr being old school realising swiftly the change in consumption but the need for journalists but also the cost of getting the story who pays?? and of course who gets the money the aggregators and or do they share with the source… if you get the chance you should seek it out on the bbc iplayer http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/464242/Page-One-Inside-The-New-York-Times/overview anyway linear media as we know it is changing… as is the attention span of the users..it will be an interesting future
October 19, 2012 at 12:56 pm
jonjo macd.
The sad decline of printed media is regrettable in the mind of this member of the ‘older generation’, I still like to get my daily copy of the Herald (and its Sunday incarnation), my quarterly edition of Columba, various Celtic Fanzines, the Celtic View, Four Four Two, World Soccer etc. etc. and I find it easier to lug a bit of paper around rather than an expensive piece of hardware. Anyhoo, hey ho, that’s me: I am just feeling my age I suppose.
October 19, 2012 at 12:51 pm
Neil
Very interesting piece Phil, particularly as you are at the coal face so to speak.
Agree about CQN, usually read it about 6am and then catch his tweets. After that it’s you I,m affraid!! as yours takes longer to read ;0)
Now that the paper version is as you say, on its last legs, do you think Madame Tussauds will have a cast of Jim Traynor made…..not as a remnant from the paper age but the Dinosaur age
October 19, 2012 at 12:49 pm