The headline on Jon Fine's latest
Business Week column pretty much says it all: "Life Among The Dinosaurs." Having attended last week's Newspaper Association of America convention in
Chicago--part of which was held among the skeletons in the Field Museum--he returns to report that business is good if you run a small paper, not so good in the big-media towns. His
characterization of the executives who attended the convention let's us know that Fine does not regard them as hip enough for the challenges at hand: "Overwhelmingly white, male, late-middle-aged,
and predisposed to wear suits on Sunday, even when traveling." Try as he might,
Business Week's media columnist could not report any unqualified positive news from Chicago. Almost all he
heard among the dinosaurs were whispers about a bygone era and the inability of today's big papers to effectively counter the underlying power of widely deployed broadband.
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