Death of the Seattle PI

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is no more.

If all the reporters who got laid off had other work, and the stories they report on were still being reported, it would be a quaint anecdote about technological change, like the stopping of manufacture of Betamax tapes or tape cassettes or 8-track tapes. Tapes.

But since craigslist mortally wounded the financial model of the newspaper, no one has figured out how to fund professional reporters finding out stuff that bad people don't want us to know. Hopefully some genius will crack the code and make millions.

The New York Times collated several opinions observing that we're going through a revolution. That in time we will find ways to get and share news that will make the newspaper seem silly in retrospect. I just hope we get something better than what TV provides now, because TV news sucks. (Except Jim Lehrer, but nobody watches him.)