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Former FT Editor Calls Newspapers Obsolete

Former Financial Times editor Andrew Gowers, who left the paper under murky circumstances last week, yesterday attacked the entire medium, saying, "Working in print, pure and simple, is the early 21st Century equivalent of running a record company and specializing in vinyl." Writing in the London Evening Standard (is there more than a bit of irony in that?), Gowers declared that the "future lies with the Internet, and those newspapers that survive will be those that produce truly original content and learn fastest how to translate it into the all-encompassing, all-singing, all-dancing new medium of the Web."

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