Death of the Newspaper

This morning there was a piece on CBS Sunday Morning about "Variety".  Variety Pens Boffo Script For Future Biz   Variety made many stars in the golden age of movies.  It started in New York in 1905 as a daily about the vaudeville scene, Broadway, and then during the birth of motion pictures moved out to California during the 1930's.  Today, it is considered a dinosaur because of the age of internet and sites like The Wrap or Deadline.com.

Variety has launched its own website http://www.variety.com/ but this site can't compete with the others because it is charging its readers for access.  Which has prompted the owners to re-vamp the site.
 

Variety has over 24 slang words in the dictionary because of the language or shorthand they used in the dailies.  Words like striptease, punchline, and sitcom are part of our normal vernacular. 

Translation : Farmers don't like movies about themselves

Call me old school, but I enjoy holding a paper in my hands and that mentality will keep some papers going even if in the virtual world.  I enjoy doing the Sudoku with my cup of coffee.  But now a days, I have to go to Stars & Stripes on the internet and print it off.