{"id":1198,"date":"2005-03-27T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2005-03-27T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2005-03-27T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2005-03-27T18:00:13","slug":"deader_trees_ri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"Deader Trees: RIP for Newspapers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/SiliconInsider\/story?id=88655&amp;page=1\">Michael Malone<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In any other industry, a product that lost 1 percent of market share for two decades &mdash; only to then double or triple that rate of decline &mdash; would be declared dead. The manufacturer would discontinue it and rush out a replacement product more in line with the desires of the marketplace. So, let&#8217;s finally come out and say: Newspapers are dead. They will never come back. By the end of this decade, the newspaper industry will suffer the same death rate &mdash; 90-plus percent &mdash; that every other industry experiences when run over by a technology revolution.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The transition will surely be interesting&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Malone: In any other industry, a product that lost 1 percent of market share for two decades &mdash; only to then double or triple that rate of decline &mdash; would be declared dead. The manufacturer would discontinue it and rush out a replacement product more in line with the desires of the marketplace. So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}