(Link)Craig Newmark is the founder of Craigslist which is a central network of online communities, that has free online advertising. It is said that Newmark's company is helping to push the newspaper into the brink of extinction. Newmark disagrees, saying that plenty of factors could have contributed to the fall. He argues that a decade ago, the Times failed to recognize the huge opportunity of using the Web to extend its brand. The newspaper has a limited amount of space, only a few ads can actually be accepted on there. The Craigslist website has much more space because it is on the Internet. The newspaper is just bulky, it takes up space, so it would be easier to have everything online. One of the only down falls of having new papers on the Internet is that every one's eyes will go bad reading off of screens and the optical industry will stay ahead. Local newspapers should be OK because it is hard to find local news on the web. Things that are national will probably be found on the web easier. Newspapers are losing and will continue to lose as long as we are moving forward in technology.
-Ronald Hudson
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