Another Newspaper Closing

Much of the discussion about the "new media" involves the inability of the old "dinosaur" media types to change with their audience, and when the old newspapers seemed to grandstand about their importance while fewer and fewer people continued to actually buy their products, it was occasionally satisfying to see some of them get their comeuppance. Still, it is occasionally sad to see smaller and less influential publications fall by the wayside, and Americké listy surely must qualify as one of those. As Petr Bísek, the editor, noted, it's probably not surprising that the older readers read less and less, and the younger readers sought out alternative sources of information. Indeed, there is a bit of Czech blogging from America, (albeit less focused on the Czech- and Slovak-speaking population actually in America) and certainly it's likely that more and more young people going to the US from this corner of the world already have a handle on the English language upon arrival. And who knows, maybe something else will rise up out of the ashes.