''A World Without Newspapers" -- A media critic looks back

Welcome to WWN. We've been without newspapers since 2035. The entire industry just collapsed. Readers, er, make that ''content consumers'', (cc), had migrated to digital platforms called "newspipes" -- some fundits called them "newspipers" -- and these content consumers felt that real print newspapers were a waste of time and paper and ink and delivery trucks and bricks and mortars. So.....
 
.....The New York Times folded, the WAPO is now defunct like its old rival the Washington Star, the LA Times is now a Hollywood film production studio. Michael Wolff of the old Newser-Waxman news copy site retired to Nome and stop talking.
 
Now it's all blogs blogs blogs -- and free free free. Critical analysis has gone out the window. Critical thinking is a thing of the past. Ideas are museum pieces. Who needs ideas in 2050? Not you!
 
Opeds are free dime a dozen on a variety of 24/8 free websites. The USA no longer X-ists. China owns the world. Sarah Palin is the second coming. Past Tense. God has re-morphed as a pickle, er, pixel. E Ink is the common currency.
 
The Chigaco Nus-Times? History. The Boston Glove? History. Le Monde? L'histoire. The Times of London? THe ghost of Londons past. Ben Bradlee? The ghost of newsrooms past.
 
Welcome to the world without newspapers, WWN. There's not a functioning brain in the barn. Digital Moronism rules. The Sulzbergers have abdicated. En masse. It's hard to write this .   .   .     .    .