The Herald Sun building in Melbourne (Image: AAP/James Ross) Print media isn’t dying. It’s already dead. Or, rather, it’s the undead — a dwindling herd of slow-walking zombies, kept staggering on by the virus that is gambling promotion.
Now that traditional media outlets have suddenly discovered the scourge of violence against women, here’s something they can do: stop taking money from an industry that’s been identified as one of the key intensifiers of that violence . They’re already doing all they can to vanish the physical newspaper from public view, with decade-long price hikes well over inflation and restricted distribution, particularly outside their core metro areas. Getting The Australian onto your doorstep every day will set you back $1,000 a year .
Talk about cost of living pressures. ‘Allegedly’: Do journalists actually not believe women? Read More CCOVID lockdowns hurried on the disappearance, ending the promotional distribution of papers through cafes, bars, gyms, sports stadiums and airports that, whatever it did for sales, acted to create a sense of the universality, the solidity, of print as a medium. The once-grand newspaper buildings that reinforced the importance of the printed word with their presence on the main street of just about every town across Australia have themselves been turned into that ultimate city-scape zombie — facades for high-rise apartments or retro themed restaurants or hotels.
Just how many print copies of Australia.
