Randomly Noted

Perhaps only journalists of a certain age – and the few remaining employees - will mourn the loss of the magazine Editor & Publisher.

Nielson Co. said it would close the magazine whose job was to chronicle the newspaper industry. It lasted some 100 years, no small feat. The “creative destruction” of the news business continues.

To those of us in the U.S. eager to begin careers in journalism in the late 1970s and certainly for some years past that, Editor & Publisher magazine, and its companion annual yearbook, served as the road map.

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This will provoke a yawn or a “duh!” from anyone under 40, but I had a  moment today when the abstract decline of what is printed and bound became tangible.

Packing up one office to move to another, I spied the Webster’s dictionary that has sat on a shelf of various of my offices for countless years.

I reached to put it into one of the plastic packing crates, but then reconsidered. When was the last time I actually consulted it? It’s not that my spelling or word choice had improved over the years. It is just so much simpler to use an online dictionary or online thesaurus, usually combined on one free site.

So the hard-covered dictionary didn’t make the cut. Sad, but true.