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# Tuesday Afternoon Doom & Despair
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2009/01/tuesday_afternoon_doom_despair/
- Published: 2009-01-06T15:34:07.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-28T14:30:47.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: hackopalypse, news, newspapers, online journalism, online publishing, Publishing

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Ah, the storm clouds are gathering. He’s some interesting posts about the coming print apocalypse I’ve been gathering over the last few weeks, just to add a little extra piquancy to Tuesday afternoon: 

\- \[Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source\](http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1066/internet-overtakes-newspapers-as-news-source) – I believe that’s known as “the writing on the wall”… - \[Online or Bust: Why 2009 May Be The Nail in Newspapers’ Coffins\](http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-why-the-nail-is-in-newspapers-coffin-for-2009/) – a hard-headed analysis from Paid Content on the challenges facing the news business in 2009, and why there aren’t any easy answers. - \[Another Round of Paid Content Nonsense\](http://www.yelvington.com/node/520) – No, not an attack on the Paid Content site, but an explanation of why the “if we just charged for our content online” argument is wrong. - \[Digital versus Print and Apples and Oranges Analysis\](http://strange.corante.com/2008/12/22/digital-versus-print-and-apple-and-oranges-analysis) – Kevin Anderson of The Guardian argues that the biggest problems facing the news business are their overheads – both the costs of the overheads traditional business models have allowed and the mountains of debt many publishers have built up. 

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