Felix Dennis Quotes

I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism.

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

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.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

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.

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.

Many people think that the print press is dying in America. Well I do not agree. And neither does my blacksmith.

Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.

Print is not dead.

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

Print is still responsible for a significant portion of the revenues that, you know, pay for the work of the newsroom. But, you know, digital is very important. And part of the thrill of having this job now is I get to lead us through what is both a thrilling and very challenging transition from a print world to a digital world.

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online.

The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.

Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.

I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

I still have the 'New York Post' delivered because it's so garrulous and nasty and wonderful when you read it in print. Some things just don't translate online.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.