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Vibrant newspapers here to stay

Letâ??s pause for a moment, take a break from the relentless blabbing and blogging about the trials and tribulations of the newspaper industry and consider a few facts.

….We remain bemused by the incessant doom-and-gloom predictions of so many, including some who should know better.

Case in point: in a recent story about the future of newspapers in the Isthmus, a Madison weekly, a UW-Madison journalism professor said of newspapers: “Most of them are effectively bankrupt right now. …”

That is wrong – again, as wrong as wrong could be.