Ted Leonsis Says the Washington Post is "not that important anymore."

Politico - Ted Leonsis, the Washington sports team owner and former AOL executive, said Monday that if he had bought the Washington Post he would have made them admit they have a problem and are “not that important anymore.”
Leonsis added that he tried to convince the Post 10 years ago to become a digital platform and embrace bloggers, but was met with resistance. “If you said to the Post, like I did 10 years ago, ‘You should be a platform, you should be embracing these bloggers and adding to your staff these virtual writers,’ they said that these bloggers are not Washington Post-caliber people, they’re not journalists,” Leonsis said. “And I said, ‘They’re not, they’re better.'”

Well obvifuckingsly. Are people still pretending newspapers have any sort of relevancy in today’s world? Unless you are 65 years old or over, there is no way you have looked at a newspaper in the past year. Why would you? You can get the news immediately from 100 other sources when it breaks. Newspapers don’t provide any service that you can’t get for free from blogs. Leonsis is probably only saying this cause he’s bitter at how the post covers his teams, but it doesn’t make him wrong. Newspapers are for cavemen and entitled douches.

Old people, get your shit together. You love newspapers, and you love buying a new TV and paying for infinity channels, only to watch the local news in standard definition. I’ve never gone into an older person’s home and seen them watching anything other than the local news. And they refuse to watch HD. If one more old person tells me they can’t tell the difference, I’m gonna take a tack hammer to their face.