old media
Noun
Meaning
old media (uncountable)
(retronym) Media that existed prior to the advent of Internet communication, such as newspapers and radio.
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Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.
Generally, old media don't die.
The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.
It's easy to make fun of AOL's pending purchase of HuffPo. Just like AOL's purchase of TimeWarner, here we have a new media company - Huffington Post - fooling an old media company, AOL, into overpaying for something that has already peaked.