New York Magazine's Culture Vulture blog attributes mega-producter/writer/director J.J. Abrams' (Felicity, Lost, Cloverfield and the up-coming Star Trek movie) purchase of a New York Times story as part of a larger plan to save print.
That makes two stories Abrams has recently bought -- the other was the rights to a story from Wired magazine. It's not uncommon for Hollywood to take notice (and the rights) of print journalist's work, but does that necessarily count as an attempt on producer's parts to "save print"?
It might be impossible, but if you haven't heard exactly why print is dying so quickly, it's not because of the legions of bloggers who feel their opinion counts as news -- though that probably doesn't help. It's because of Craigslist. Newspapers paid for themselves with their classified sections, but with the advent of free, easy postings online, the classifieds have shrunk to almost nothing, and newspapers have been left to lean on advertising -- never a good idea when you're trying to keep some semblance of editorial morality.
It doesn't necessarily follow that print stories being bought to be developed into films can "save" print, but it does mean that we might have some better movies. Case in point? The below:
takepart by checking out the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the newspaper dedicated to covering the nonprofit world.
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