The end of printed media?

It’s kind of hard for me to imagine a world without newspapers. The inky smell and the texture of the paper I have  to know as newsprint. In school, my classmates and I were encouraged to read them in order to stay abreast of current events. In high school, I was introduced to the USA Today, which was the Gannett newspaper to revolutionize all other newspapers. After I graduated from college and married, we got our daily newspaper. Though, eventually my husband and I got so busy with work and life, we rarely ever had the time to actually sit down and read them anymore. I don’t know if that was more of an indictment on our lifestyle or the fact that by the time we were busy parents, we could go to a web site for the news shows, or the associated press, read the full story (no cutting down to fit onto page so and so) and be done without having to eyeball the recycling bin.  With all of that said, I am not sure I’m willing to cast all print media off to the same category as black and white television like Daniel Lyons did in his Newsweek piece. As a matter of fact, I’m very troubled by the news of the current state of affairs at Ebony Magazine (which I learned from the GT blog).