Death of the newspaper (and, oh yeah, the mall too)

Powerful article on Mediate about the decline and fall of the newspaper industry and the mall during the Aughts, and why the two are linked:

The blossoming of the Internet in the Aughts, a time of political and economic instability, has hastened (though not completed) the demise of many cultural components tangential to its core functionality. The slow sublimation of newspapers is understood to be its victim; the evaporation of malls, America’s once dominant retail touchstones, is not. Both industries are sliding down similar slopes, pushed by the same hand.

The lesson is simple: the goal never changes, though the path to achieve it often does. For decades the goals of community and convenience were met by shopping malls. That’s simply no longer the case.

Wow, a lot to think about in there.