Yesterday's news

We don't read physical newspapers anymore, you know, the ones you open up and that have pages you can turn... We subscribe to the New York Time electronically and get our news from other free media sources.

For the past few days, I've had the chance to consult the printed edition of the Wall Street Journal, only to find that most articles were a day late and felt stale if one considers how perishable news have become.

Recently, we were just told by Newsweek that their weekly print edition would be discontinued at the end of 2012. We had no other choice but resign ourselves to that reality. We tried their online version, didn't like it and moved on without that magazine.

While there are still people who believe that news in print have some future, I've now become convinced that their total demise is just a question of time and not too far around the corner...