Greenberg Redeux

A 2009 column gets updated last week by Paul Greenberg, and it bears review. The original column, The Vanishing Newspaper, can be read at this syndicater outside the ADG pay wall.

The gist of the column is newspapers die regularly, the technologies have a life cycle ("hot lead gave way to cold type, and typewriters to word processors") and the industry has faced these events before (radio would kill papers; then TV would kill papers; now the internet will kill papers

I've noted Greenberg's column before, but what struck me this read in Feb. 2010 versus last year was this:

The technology of daily journalism may change, but not the essence of the project. . . . Whenever a daily newspaper is shuttered, free weeklies, community bulletins, and counter-cultural broadsides begin filling in the gap. Like grass after a forest fire.