Comments on: Jon Stewart talks to Walter Isaacson about how to save newspapers http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/02/10/jon-stewart-talks-to-walter-isaacson-about-how-to-save-newspapers/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:23:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: jon stewart http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/02/10/jon-stewart-talks-to-walter-isaacson-about-how-to-save-newspapers/#comment-84997 jon stewart Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:29:11 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=3928#comment-84997 Jon stewart proposed to his future wife through a personalized crossword puzzle created with the help of Will Shortz Jon stewart proposed to his future wife through a personalized crossword puzzle created with the help of Will Shortz

]]> By: Teodoro Dawson http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/02/10/jon-stewart-talks-to-walter-isaacson-about-how-to-save-newspapers/#comment-79497 Teodoro Dawson Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:52:00 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=3928#comment-79497 "Hey, Chief, why don't we put our newspaper content on the interwebs, for free? It's the future of newspapers!" "Great idea, Jones! Then we'll reduce the size of our paper by half and get rid of most of our staff!" "Perfect! We'll phase out the print version of the paper and cut our overhead by 15,000%!" Ten years later: "Jones, we put our content on the web, shrank or knocked out most of our unique content, brought the paper size down to letter size, fired half our staff, but we're still not making any money off the interwebs! And in the meantime, we've fouled up our paper so much no one is interested in reading it! Got any more great ideas?!?" "Yeah, Chief! Ever hear of digital paper? It's the future of newspapers!" "Great idea, Jones!" Another ten years later: "Hey, Chief, you want fries with that?" If one could think of more effective ways to sabotage his own medium, I don't know what they could possibly be. “Hey, Chief, why don’t we put our newspaper content on the interwebs, for free? It’s the future of newspapers!”

“Great idea, Jones! Then we’ll reduce the size of our paper by half and get rid of most of our staff!”

“Perfect! We’ll phase out the print version of the paper and cut our overhead by 15,000%!”

Ten years later:

“Jones, we put our content on the web, shrank or knocked out most of our unique content, brought the paper size down to letter size, fired half our staff, but we’re still not making any money off the interwebs! And in the meantime, we’ve fouled up our paper so much no one is interested in reading it! Got any more great ideas?!?”

“Yeah, Chief! Ever hear of digital paper? It’s the future of newspapers!”

“Great idea, Jones!”

Another ten years later:

“Hey, Chief, you want fries with that?”

If one could think of more effective ways to sabotage his own medium, I don’t know what they could possibly be.

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