Print Media Decline Quotes

The age of the book is almost gone.

The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's put big companies into completely reinventing their strategies.

There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.

When CNN launched in the early 1980s, everybody said: A 24-hour news network won't work. They launched, they did ok, CNN went almost bankrupt because of the risks they had taken, they got bailed out, and 25 years later CNN is a huge global brand. I think the same is going to happen in digital. If you look at the younger generation, there is a huge consumption of digital media and almost no consumption of print or traditional television. Eventually money will follow that. It is just a question of which companies win, how long it takes to get there and what kind of model you need to apply.

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.

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.

I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.

No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

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.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.