[NU Sports] CFB Postseason...Survey Says... (fwd)

[Mike Nolan]

> And newspapers need all the help they can get.

I have my doubts that the newspaper industry will survive in anything
resembling its current form for more than the next few years.  The
papers are even helping to write their own death warrants by putting
up websites, though failure to do so might be even worse.  (Newspaper 
websites will never draw in the level of local advertising dollars that 
printed papers got.  The use of the past tense was intentional.)  

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is up for sale, if they don't find a
buyer in 90 days it's probably toast.  The Minneapolis Star-Tribune is 
also looking at going online-only.  The days when there are two large
daily papers in Chicago are likely numbered, too.  I would not want to
be a senior at Medill (or any other college) right now, the job market 
has to be brutal.  

The newspapers won't get a 700 billion dollar bailout from Washington, 
either, at least not unless they've hired Wesley Mouch as their spokesman.

TV rules the polls, playoff and national championship picture these days,
the AP having declared itself irrelevant.

In many ways the basic purpose hasn't changed, it's still all designed 
to attract viewers (aka readers) and sell ads.  
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Mike Nolan