Rapid Collapse of Pre Internet Newspaper Giants Surprising Even to Me

The main page of Collapse of Debt - Items 14, 15  and 16 talks about the necessary collapse of Pre Internet Newspaper business models. Today the Christian Science Monitor announced that in April of 2009 it will cease publishing its daily print edition after 100 years of publication.

"The Christian Science Monitor plans major changes in April 2009 that are expected to make it the first newspaper with a national audience to shift from a daily print format to an online publication that is updated continuously each day."

When I published the original outline of Collapse of Debt I was not thinking about the immediate collapse of the print edition of a major paper of the caliber of The Christian Science Monitor - but here it is, just weeks after my initial posting.

This move has the potential to put the Monitor in a much stronger position - which is one of the reasons stated to make the change.

"This new, multiplatform strategy for the Monitor will "secure and enlarge the Monitor's role in its second century," said Mary Trammell, editor in chief of The Christian Science Publishing Society and a member of the Christian Science Board of Directors."

Now that The Christian Science Monitor has made this decision to kill its daily print edition it will find itself in a far stronger position to become a primary source of information rather than a "second read" paper.  The nature and quality of its reporting will also be free to evolve and adjust with the rapidly changing Internet Networked Human Population trends.  We can expect the reporting from the Monitor to become more relevant to Post Internet Reality and they will become more aware of ways that they can provide insight rather than confusion concerning the Collapse of Debt that is occurring as the result of Human Society being Networked through the Internet.

The Monitor accurately forecasts that this move will put them more in touch with the intent of the paper's founder, provide more stability and continuity for the paper and increase their reach and impact.

In what other age could all these major improvements be attained by drastically cutting operating costs of physical plant, production and distribution?

Link to full text of The Christian Science Monitor announcement