Leonard Witt folgt
Vin Crosbie bei seiner Entdeckung des "
Phänomens eines immanenten, plötzlichen Todes der Zeitungen "...
In seinem Beitrag '
Vin Crosbie on the Imminent Death of Newspapers' auf
PJNet zitiert er Vin (
Keynote 2nd Annual Global Conference of Individuated Newspaper)
"More than 1.3 billion people are gravitating to whatever … matches their individually unique mix of interests. They’re gravitating away from Mass Media and its one-size-fits-all attempt at satisfying 1.3 billion unique mixes of interests. I’ll say it again: billions of people are gravitating online to find much more relevant matches of their interest than the traditional practices of Mass Media can give them."
"The reason why Google and Yahoo! are the most used sites online is because people are hunting and gathering to find the topics that match their myriad and individual specific interests…. And those billions of people are gravitating away from generic, analog products that deliver the same mix of news to everyone. They’re moving away from the analog newspaper."
Vin verdeutlicht den Anachronismus analoger Newsmedien in der heutigen Zeit exemplarisch am Beispiel der New York Times. Deren Leser verbringen auf der NYT Website durchschnittlich pro Monat weniger Zeit, als mit dem Lesen der gedruckten Ausgabe an einem durchschnittlichen Tag.
Obwohl diese Tatsachen und Zusammenhänge bekannt sind und die Tools für dieses neuen Newsconsum-Pattern (und Bedürfnisse) zur Verfügung stehen, stürzt sich das traditionelle Newsbusiness sehenden Auges in ihr Verderben.
Dann weist Leonard auf einen aktuellen Beitrag (Start einer Serie) und Einschätzung von Vin Grosbie zum Schicksal von lern- und handlungsunwilligen News-Business Unternehmen auf digitaldeliverance.com hin und zitiert daraus:
Ich werde hier (heute und den nächsten Tagen) beschreiben, was amerikanischen Tageszeitung tun, hätten tun können, um ihren Untergang zu vermeiden ...
"More than half of the 1,439 daily newspapers in the United States won’t exist in print, e-paper, or Web site formats by the end of next decade. They will go out of business. The few national dailies — namely USA Today, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal — will have diminished but continuing existences via the Web and e-paper, but not in print. The first dailies to expire will be the regional dailies, which have already begun to implode. Those plus a very many smaller dailies, most of whose circulations are steadily evaporating, will decline to levels at which they will no longer be economically viable to publish daily. Further layoffs of staffs by those newspapers’ companies cannot avoid this fate - not so long as daily circulations and readerships continually and increasingly decline. (Layoffs are becoming little more than the remedy of bleeding that was used in attempts to cure ill patients during the 18th Century and cannot restore the industry’s health.)"
"‘Hyperlocal’ news startup companies, whose services will be delivered not on newsprint but online, might replace many small dailies, but not most, and certainly not before the printed products’ demise. The deaths of large numbers of daily newspapers in the U.S. won’t cause a new Dark Age but will certainly cause a ‘Gray Age’ for American journalism during the next decade. Much local and regional news won’t see the light of publication."
Zum Beitrag
Transforming American Newspapers (Part 1)Na, vielleicht geht ja noch was!? Oder sind wir (Bild, Welt) wie Mathias Döpfner meint, schon meilenweit besser als diese
erbärmlich rückständigen US Tageszeitungen?
Danke an Leonard Witt für den
Beitrag und den Hinweis auf die Serie!
