Well, that’s what it must feel like, anyway, what with the sharp decline in print revenues. Look, it would be highly appropos for me to be blogger-centric, and proclaim like many others, that print is Dead. But that would be silly.

Print will survive, but in another form. And they won’t be nearly as large, or have as wide a circulation. They’ll find their own niche, whether it be in a completely free format or otherwise. Much like older media (such as the radio), it will evolve because it has to. But I don’t think its quite in the same boat as, say, the telegraph.

Man, its like I’ve said this before.

Oh, wait.

I have — in my 2007 predictions! :)

Smugness aside, yes, print media will change, and yes, journalists will have to evolve an ever flexible tool set of skills to draw upon.

But “saving” print media by some silly protectionist ideas is just … well, silly. I mean, come on. Creating an embargo of print media so we can all learn to value what real journalists do? Its all well meaning, but its practically (literally) impossible to execute.

In fact — again, its an argument we’ve heard before.

And like last time, print journalists seem to ignore the fact that we can get the news from all kinds of sources, even the television. If online media is denied to “new media” types (read: bloggers), that’s fine, because, quite frankly, we can get the news somewhere else … literally.

The issues around the living death of print media and pre-eminence of new media is something that is growing. And I suspect its something that we’ll all hear about for quite a while to come as more print companies get into trouble, outright fold, get bought out, or move to an on-line presence altogether.