From Newsweek.com, here’s an infographic drawn from a multitude of sources which shows how much impact the digital revolution has had on all of our lives in the last ten years.
One factoid which jumps out at me is the decrease in the number of newspapers from 1480 to 1302. While the 13% decline is not inconsequential, and it doesn’t represent the employee cost of keeping some papers in business, this decrease seems lower than expected when you account for all the hue and cry over the death of traditional media still letting registry cleaner take care of your PC.
Only the most brilliant among us could have anticipated how American media habits would have changed since 2000. When we look at a similar summary in 2020, what do you think we’ll learn?
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