Portland Press Herald to fold?
Posted: August 29, 2008
I was watching NBC Nightly News last night – something I don’t do very often – and their last story was about the Portland (Maine) Press Herald. The newspaper, which has seen a drop in ad sales and subscriptions, is on the verge of folding.
If the paper were to fold, Portland, Maine, would become the first big city to see its newspaper go out of business.
What I found particularly interesting about NBC’s story was how Brian Williams prefaced it:
“It’s feared it could fold – another victim of the Web and our changing times.”
That sort of rubbed me the wrong way. For one, as I watch this video again from the Web, I felt like Williams felt almost resentful toward the Web changing the daily newspaper. After thinking it through, I just feel that it isn’t very often that a newspaper falls victim to the Web. Newspapers fall victim to themselves and their inability to adapt to the changes going on around them.
Video didn’t really kill the radio star, it just turned out that radio stars were going to have to start shooting videos. Is it any different for a newspaper?
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