PRINT POSSIBILITIES

By MUHAMMAD MANSOUR

The Washington Post recently put up forsale the magazine Newsweek, promptingspeculation that a Chinese companymay buy up the American publication.Regardless of what happens, thereseems to be a consensus in the West thatprint media is finally dying out. But thisis a conversation that has been going onfor decades. When television began todominate the mediascape years back,people thought it would kill publishing,too. It didnt.