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Watch John Stewart’s slightly edited speach at the Emmys about Hurricane Katrina.

Here is a great post from Tim Porter (from just this past week) on a BIG dose of reality that all of us in the newspaper industry must embrace:

It should be no secret to anyone in the newspaper industry that great change lies ahead. Not many people like to go through the type of change that many are predicting that a newspaper must do to remain relevant and profitable in the future.

Here’s another. We must adapt and change with the culture and quit relying on old methods of providing the news.

Madame Summer Rose looks into the crystal ball. Beads of sweat accumulates above her eyebrow but no one is to distract her by wiping off the sweat for her. She is concentrating so hard for some images to surface that she didn’t realise those sweats. She sees it, she see the future of newspaper. Actually, there is no future for newspaper. It appears that, slowly but surely, one day, newspaper might just be a thing of the past, just like typewritters.

Here’s another piece on the future of newspaper

I have lamented the demise of newspapers for some time. The evidence continues to pour in that the newspaper industry must adapt or die. It will not happen in a year, but I think it will within 5 years.

Visual Editors asks what newspapers of the future may look like.

A glimpse of what could be possible came in the film Minority Report, in a scene where a man reads what looks like a newspaper, but the page changes electronically as he is reading it.

wow. wednesday will be six months.