But the diminishment of the Times-Picayune is also flavored with deep irony in an thisera of digital disintermediation and newspaper defeat: the New Orleans daily heroically and effectively moved to the Internet to tell the story of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, providing an early model for online excellence.
Another interesting statistic: out of all the decades from the 1940s onward, the era that got the biggest boost this year in terms of digital album sales was the 1980s.