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The journalists of the network news divisions have finally stumbled onto the plight of their ink-stained brethren. The week started with the bankruptcy of the Philadelphia Inquirer and ended with the shuttering of the Rocky Mountain News. So CBS' Jeff Greenfield and NBC's Lee Cowan--and now ABC's Laura Marquez have contemplated the prospect of a newspaperless civil society. "The root problem for newspapers is the increased use of the Internet," Marquez opined, citing Pew Research statistics that more people read free news online than on printed papers that they purchase. Tyndall Report's longtime friend Jeff Jarvis--ID'd by Marquez not by his free blog buzzmachine.com but by his purchasable new book What Would Google Do?--was given a soundbite to defend online journalism. "Whine and whine" was his gist.
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