Say it ain't so, Joe.
Here's what Arthur Sulzberger told a journalist from Haaratz.com in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland:
Given the constant erosion of the printed press, do you see the New York Times still being printed in five years?
"I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care either," [Sulzberger] says.
My main thought on this is that it may give many other newspaper publishers the opportunity and permission to start thinking online-only, or combination of online/non-daily print.
But it's hard to say goodbye to print. And not just the reading habit, either. Tonight I ate dinner with some Pakistani friends. We dined, Pakistani-style, on the floor of their apartment with the food spread out picnic-style before us. Our table cloth was layers and layers of already-read newspapers.
Yesterday, I got a used book in the mail from an online bookseller. It came wrapped in old newspaper.
A week ago I watched a student fictional film here at Stanford about a janitor with art aspirations who would paint in the art studio after hours -- on old campus newspapers.
At a farmers' market last Saturday, I watched people carry away fresh-cut flowers wrapped in ... old newspaper.
Anybody trained a puppy lately?
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