At a recent committee meeting of a professional association, the speaker talked about print media and the Internet. Print media are struggling because the Internet can more easily disseminate information. The Internet is changing the world, and print media are those most directly affected by this change. Just recently, I was supposed to conduct an audit in two cities—Lincoln, Nebraska, and Albany, New York. Unfortunately, due to weather conditions (or airline conditions), the flights couldn’t leave O’Hare airport in Chicago, where I was. After two attempts, I decided to perform the audit remotely using video conferencing and to forget about traveling, and it worked out well. Suddenly I realized that airlines are also being greatly affected by the Internet.

Putting these two incidents together, I realized that there must be similarities among the print media, the Internet and airline companies: the Internet is overwhelming the other two. Content for magazines and newspapers is well researched, well written and published periodically. With the Internet, a story is delivered as it evolves.

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