No more newspapers

The only regret to me is the occasional opportunity for shared community with everyone with things like the local high school football scores or where the next garden club meeting is. You can find this stuff on the web, but its not in the serendipitous way that it used to be in newspapers.

Things were already different in 1963. Although the Orange County newspaper had an “extra” and probably about 100 pages of news and ads, that big-shared experience was on television and radio. Radio had shared things during World War II, but in 1963 even the newsrooms had television sets. That newspaper was probably set on a linotype machine.

These are now found in museums. And it was run off from hot type on cylinders after being composited on chases in a print shop. You can see one of these linotypes in action on You Tube.

By the time 1969 came along much of the process had changed to a photo reproduction and offset process. No more lynotype machines.

Now you can read Romanesko to chronicle the death of the newspaper.

Even the venerable Editor and Publisher the Bible for journalists, is now online with the latest on the grief.

Today you can get instant news feeds, articles and quotes for your project newspaper from Daylife. com

Or if you aspire to be a reporter study entrepreneurial journalism wherein you write and sell ads on your own website. Jeff Jarviswho wrote "What Would Google Do," always has interesting insights.

So we will continue to get news: On CNN, from the local Channel 7 news desk (only if you have local channels(), but less and less about or community’s shared interest. And less and less for that clipping about the Oceanside Pirate’s big football win.