Do newspapers matter? Or is journalism, regardless of how it’s distributed, what matters? If you are in the business of selling bundles of paper with ads and news, an item fewer people want, time to think things over. Are you in the publishing business — making physical printed goods — or the news business which can and has gone out in many forms.
Likewise the car industry: are they in the personal transportation business, meaning anything a person can use to get around, or can they only understand 4-wheeled metal boxes with petroleum-fueled engines? Just as the newspapers are more about using paper, the carmakers are all about using dinosaur juice more than giving people what they want.
Why is that?
[from my comments on Facebook | Causes | Don’t Let Newspapers Die]