Jettisoning Print: the next inevitable leap in journalism

Paul Chesser reports on the buyout of Knight-Ridder by McClatchy Co. which will drop 12 of the 32 K-R papers purchased.

Acclaimed as one of the few exceptionally run newspaper chains in America, McClatchy is positioned to turn a community into one served solely through electronic news delivery. It's time to see if a text media provider in a given city can thrive without daily paper throwers.

Besides the cost of newsprint and presses and that of distributing the product,

In this digital age, paying someone to get up in the middle of the night, burn their fuel, risk their lives, and beat up their vehicles, all to place an obsolete form of news product in customers' hands, is impractical.

Good point.