{"id":280,"date":"2009-03-17T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/03\/17\/seattle-newspaper-closes-down\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:27","slug":"seattle-newspaper-closes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/03\/17\/seattle-newspaper-closes-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle newspaper closes down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_plNK-YE-FJo\/Sb_V8T5GnnI\/AAAAAAAAAYA\/3iA2OVsX0YU\/s1600-h\/45610805-16235506.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 110px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/45610805-16235506.jpg?w=629\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314201317429124722\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I used to be a print reporter and I&#8217;ve still got a soft spot for newspapers. So it grieves me to see an institution like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-seattle-p-i17-2009mar17,0,5714395.story\">Seattle Post-Intelligencer shut down<\/a>. But that&#8217;s what happened today and it looks like more of these events are coming in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there&#8217;s two sides to every story, as any good reporter knows. And lots of folks don&#8217;t see the death of a few papers as a bad thing. But a theme is emerging, which is that the traditional news business &#8211; and the mainstream media in general &#8211; missed their chance to seize the opportunity that new technology offered. Instead, they tried to keep the status quo, which is rarely, if ever, a good option. Now they&#8217;re paying the price.<\/p>\n<p>For more views on what&#8217;s going on, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/weblog\/2009\/03\/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable\/\">Clay Shirkey&#8217;s take<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/2009\/03\/14\/no-jan-20-for-newspapers\/\">Jeff Jarvis&#8217;s.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve often said that we&#8217;re living through an information revolution. The problem is we like some of the old stuff that&#8217;s going to get pushed aside and it&#8217;s tough to adapt. But it&#8217;s going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think our media future will look like in 10 years? How will we get our news?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be a print reporter and I&#8217;ve still got a soft spot for newspapers. So it grieves me to see an institution like the Seattle Post-Intelligencer shut down. But that&#8217;s what happened today and it looks like more of these events are coming in the future. Of course there&#8217;s two sides to every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-4w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/45610805-16235506.jpg?fit=140%2C110&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}