Around 2000 the media consensus held that the internet would make old media extinct

Evidence

By 2000, the consensus was that the “old media”—the industries that had captured the preponderance of human attention over the last century—were basically doomed. They could try as they might to delay the future, but ultimately the new would replace the old as it always had. The legacy attention merchants and their collaborators in advertising were, by this understanding, on a path to extinction. “It’s our country. It’s our media now. It’s our time and attention,” wrote Jeff Jarvis, prominent booster of the new media. “Sorry if we, the people, disappoint you. But does it occur to you that you disappointed us?” — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 858

Categorization

• XREF: This prediction-of-extinction framing parallels earlier chapters where radio was expected to kill newspapers and television to kill radio. — connects to: Internet media outlets collapsed in succession from 2016 to 2024 — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 713

Broader Connections

• Internet media outlets collapsed in succession from 2016 to 2024 #corroborates (0.80) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 713