How long before Newspapers die?

Don't know about the rest, but the part in bold is a myth.

There are a million stories and studies out there showing that millennials are buying cars and houses, but here's one from a guy who said they wouldn't (in a story headlined "The Cheapest Generation") now admitting he was wrong (sort of): The Great Millennial Car Comeback - The Atlantic

Some quotes:

"This week, Bloomberg reports new data from J.D. Power & Associates, which finds that Millennials, or Generation Y (essentially: anybody born in the 1980s or 1990s), now account for 27 percent of new car sales. That's more than Generation X, and second only to Boomers.
I read the article with gritted teeth. Red-faced and gripping my confirmation bias like the steering wheel of a drift-turning Motorsport vehicle, I emailed J.D. Power to get the data, hoping to find some morsel of evidence that Millennial demand for cars wasn't actually growing quickly.
Now that I have seen the data, I can report: Millennial demand for cars is growing quickly. New vehicle sales among young people are rising as if drawn on a ruler."

"And what about our other prediction, that young people would spurn the suburban-home picket-fence picture that once illustrated the American Dream? It's the same story. Our 2012 predictions was prescient in a way, but we also failed to foresee how quickly the country would snap back to its sun-belt-suburban migration patterns.
Rich 20- and 30-somethings with college degrees are much, much more likely to live in dense urban centers than they were 20 years ago, as Ben Casselman and Jed Kolko have explained. Some media narratives treat this rarified group as synonymous with Millennials, perhaps because it describes the clientele of the bars frequented by the coastal journalists who write those stories. But step outside Brooklyn, D.C., or Oakland, and you'll find that the broader story is completely different. Adults between 25 and 34 without bachelor's degrees (which is the majority!) are actually less likely to live in urban neighborhoods than they were at the turn of the century. Most of them are moving to the suburbs as soon as they can afford to."

"Young people are still buying cars, they're still moving out to the suburbs, and they're still looking to buy houses in the sunny swoosh that extends from the Carolinas, through Texas, and up into the northwest."

 

Oakland?

 

Forget it, he's rolling.

 

Try making a papier-mache dinosaur out of strips torn from your iPhone or tablet.

 

When they do documentaries or "30 for 30s" in 2080 about a subject from the 2040s, what will they use as "remember when?" props without old newspaper clippings?

 

Yes and a few years ago the party line was newsprint is robust and here to stay.

What they haven't managed to do is change the model of who is selling ads and how they are sold. I would sell lots of small ads (sub shop ad on a page for the high school it is next to) etc.

But instead the model is to work the bigger clients and sell them print, online and social media combos.

They just do not get it.

 

Going online first isn't the problem. News is a 24-7 proposition.

It's giving it away for free and making it the same exact thing as the print product that is the problem.

 

I don't work at a gannett shop but that sounds like my place. Everything is a combo. And while the reps don't get in trouble for only selling print, it isn't considered a successful sale if they don't get a combo.

 

Going online first means a lot. They changed the news cycle and it doesn't allow for newspapers to succeed. Print editions have had set windows for breaking news. Those are gone, and newspapers lost a lot when their windows didn't mean diddly anymore.