The Death of the Magazine

mean anything at all. On the front page of the gray old Times, I’m liable to encounter a chatty article about frying with propane gas. CNN lavished hours of airtime on a runaway bride. The magisterial tones of Walter Cronkite, America’s rich uncle, are lost to history, replaced by the ex-cheerleader mom style of Katie Couric. One reason the notion

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It is actually a story we in the news media find dispiritingly familiar: the collapse of your business comes not when nobody is interested in your domain, but when interest is high yet you can't make the numbers work. As with the death of print media, the death of photography – not just analogue photography but also high-end digital, where profits ... See more

Let’s cut to the chase. If this TikTok-ification of the music biz continues, what will be the end result? Here it is, in a single sentence: Only unsuccessful musicians still need a label. Think over the deep implications of that fact.