A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran

Following up on posts about the slow death of print, our friend Rus Wornom, formerly of the Richmond Times Dispatch, has been doing excellent blogging about drops in revenue, declining circulation, and general running about like chickens with heads cut off.

Today’s post: the Jurassic Age of newspaper publishing.

Newspapers don’t want to evolve — instead they just want to make a few superficial and cosmetic changes — start charging higher prices, start charging for portions of the paper that used to be included with the paper (the tv section in the Times-Dispatch, for example) — and sit back and proclaim that they’ve changed with the times.

Rus will also be doing a podcast interview on the newspaper crises at Tall Tale Radio.

Rus Wornom is a writer and journalist who made the prelim ballot nomination for the Horror Writers of America Award for Best Novella for his work “Puppy Love Land”. He sometimes uses the pseudonym Rus Howard.

He’s been published in Omni magazine, and Premiere, and has appeared on Court TV, and the Financial News Network.

More roundup over at the The Beat.

My goodness, this whole web thing is nifty swell. And now, even my tiny hometown newspaper is on the web. There are only 200 people in this town, and someone figured out how to use the technology.

Isn’t my webcomic nice? Click TOP on the upper bar to see the latest page, and FIRST to go to page 1.

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