“I can’t believe there will be many daily newspapers in ten years time,” so says Alan Rusbridger, former editor of the Guardian, now principal of Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford University.
Stalker notes that he reckons weekend newspapers might survive, and happily he makes no prognoses about monthly periodicals and the like. However he does have a point when he mentions “ You have to be ready for digital, because at some point you will turn off the printing presses.” Maybe it’s time to look into new digital platforms for mushroom news.
Stalker notes that google+ automatically tags folks into the news-feeds of enterprises that have an online presence, like SM Biotech and Mushroom Machines, from India. No need to to go out and search for news stories, they plop into your inbox or social media feed. The future is most definitely here, and the rub of ink on your fingers maybe means that one is behind the curve.
And yet perusing a newspaper, magazine or periodical may well hang on in there as a tangible, more restful medium - wherein one can digest and cogitate and ruminate. Digital news is like ephemera - here and gone, with barely enough time to lodge in the short term or working memory cells.
Similarly with vinyl records and photographic film - as Marshall McLuhan famously said, the medium is the message!
