You can’t wrap fish in gigabytes

This MSN SmartMoney post by Donna Freedman, forwarded to me by my lovely spouse the Northern Cheapskate, starts with the question “What will we do without newspapers?” For instance, she opines, what will we wrap stuff in? Other stuff, she concludes. But she raises more important questions about how the death of traditional newspapers would amplify the divide between haves and have nots we see in global internet usage. This is the larger issue in the “death of newspaper” story we see bouncing around the internet.

The Industrial Age was shaped by those who control industry, until one day those abused by the system struck back. The Information Age is being shaped by those who control the information. But will those fed misinformation know how to strike back? Ouch. Now my head hurts.

I don’t think all newspapers are going to die, but there will be a definite advantage for those that figure out how to generate revenue and traffic without classified ads. Because at the end of the day the winner of the Information War will be the one that helps Jeebus sell his boat.

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