Associated Press
Remember last week? Do you? Remember when NYT publisher Arthur Sulzberger, at Davos, said "I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care, either?" That remark caused a media mini-flutter. And apparently, he was just kidding, or riffing, or musing. Maybe he meant 'five years' figuratively, like in that David Bowie song, which, now that we think about it, also includes a line that goes "News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying." Sulzberger: closet glam-rock fan? Hmm.
Tomorrow, reports the Observer's Media Mob, he will deliver a speech to his staff, reaffirming–on Valentine's Day–his love for and commitment to print. The Observer has some of the prepared text . Highlight: "[L]et me clear the air on this issue. It is my heartfelt view that newspapers will be around–in print–for a long time. But I also believe that we must be prepared for that judgment to be wrong."
