Christian Science Monitor

Sure, New Mexico is facing a half-a-billion dollar shortfall in this year’s state budget, and a lot — I mean a lot — of debate, work and a willingness to compromise lies ahead for state lawmakers and Gov. Bill Richardson when the Legislature goes into special session Oct. 17 to address the shortfall.
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There are two interesting stories in newspapers — about newspapers — today, and their wildly diverging ideas on how to save the industry demonstrate how desperate the situation has become. Today in The New York Times, media reporter David Carr suggests the era of free Web content should come to an end.

The headline above did not spring from my brain. It’s a line I cribbed from David Carr’s New York Times column that ran Tuesday of this week. In it, Carr laments the decline in old media.
As he notes in somewhat understated fashion, it’s been a tough few days for newspapers and magazines.