From the desk (and BlackBerry) of Keith Parnell

No need for those expensive satellite feeds anymore, I’m guessing. When you have a story to report just whip out the laptop, throw in the air card from your favorite ISP, and pop open a Skype video connection back to the office / television station.

I snapped this photograph real quick tonight with the BlackBerry while watching the 11:00 PM news on television on WTKR TV 3 in Hampton Roads (VA).

Good for WTKR! Very resourceful reporting from Mexico.

I think a lot of you may already know that I read Mark Cuban’s Blog Maverick blog quite a bit. He’s in my ‘must read’ group in Google Reader of those that I make sure to catch everyday.

Mark posted some thoughts today on the newspaper industry’s woes during today’s Internet movement. You can read the article here but essentially he expressed how sad it was to him that a single newspaper reporter showed for his pre game press conference. He attributed the lack of physical attendance to the Internet news movement away from paper newspapers.

I also had some thoughts earlier this week on the newspaper industry getting left behind. Read that article here.

What do you think? Is this sad to you? Or do you see the situation as just one of those things that progress unveils?

“The Rocky Mountain News, gone. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, gone. Today the Ann Arbor (Michigan) News announced it would publish its last edition in July. Three other papers announced today they’re cutting back to three print editions a week. At least 120 newspapers have shut down since January 2008, according to Paper Cuts, a Web site that tracks the industry.” *

This is not good news at all for the newspaper industry. Yes, I am one of those people that lean more towards the Internet to get my news today but I don’t blame me (or my kind). I blame the newspaper companies for not changing with the times.

This has been coming for a long time. And it seems like the good-old-boy newspaper network has been sitting idley by and denying this premonition to be true.

Well, here we are. And companies are now failing for not providing the service their consumers want.

Good news: it’s not too late. Get with it guys. The Internet is here to stay. You have the information we want. Now you must get it on the platform where we live.

* Source: CNN.com.

Geez! This just keeps getting worse. At what point in this disaster does anyone stand up for us little guys that pay taxes?

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