Chris Anderson gives a rundown of the woes facing the different media forms in terms of circulation, sales, and market share. It's comprehensive, and it's bad ... but of course it's not news.
Still, you'd never guess that from talking to old media editors, producers and executives.
Jeff Jarvis has a lot of useful to stuff to say about whether this is a tipping point or a melting point.
And the New York Times adds its muscle with a woe-is-me argument:
"Within the newspaper business itself, however, recent financial results suggest that big newspapers are suffering more than smaller ones."
It turns out that big papers are losing out not only to the internet and competing new media but to local papers as well.
No one should be surprised at this. It's been a consistently strong line from some commentators for years. Vin Crosbie and others have been making this same point for ages.
Yet the NYT can still report it yesterday as if it was a brand new revelation. It would be ironic if it wasn't so sad.
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