Hes not a nut.
He seems a tad obsessed with this deathwatch issue. He should be calling it a newspaper deathwatch. He obviously hasn’t noticed that the millions in lost newspaper circulation has moved to the internet and television.
All of the media companies are losing market share and profitability quarter-over-quarter, and aren't likely to ever make any of it back up.
Even with their moves to the internet, they are finding a paltry income from online ads, which is, at best, probably a hundredth of what they were making off ads in print.
The industry's time is expiring, and that is what the threads are all about.