Bill Gates cheers up the newspaper biz

Some kind words from the gazillionaire Microsoft founder about where he sees the printed word going in the future.
clipped from blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com
I have a lot of friends in the newspaper industry, and of course, this is a tough, wrenching change for them, because the number of people who actually buy, subscribe to the newspaper and read it has started an inexorable decline. In fact, when we look at it by age group, it’s quite dramatic how different that is. People have found some combination of TV and the Internet as the way that they can get their news, even the local news that historically was only available in that print form.”
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