Will McDonough Quotes

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 we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

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

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.

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

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

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

We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.

I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

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.

You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

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.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven't been grave challenges facing newspapers.

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

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.

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

'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media.

For newspapers to continue to play an important role in civic engagement, they need more access to capital. Their decline has created a real threat to independent reporting at the state and local level.