This is sufficiently depressing to stand on its own, sans comment. Thanks (well, maybe) to my mouthpiece for the link.
Print Is Down, and Now Out; Media Companies Spin Off Newspapers, to Uncertain Futures, by David Carr (NYT)
… The Nashville Scene noted that readers had to wait only one day to find out what the news of the future looks like: a Page 1 article in The Tennessean about Kroger, a grocery store and a major advertiser, lowering its prices.
If this is the future — attention news shoppers, Hormel Chili is on sale in Aisle 5 — what is underway may be a kind of mercy killing.
