Ironic. I was finishing my reading of an article by Michael Hirschorn from Atlantic Online that I was given by my boss. Today is the day after President Obama's inauguration. The article titled "End Times" is about the death of traditional (or "old") media in favor of "new" media, with a particular spotlight on The New York Times. "The former Times executive editor Abe Rosenthal often said he couldn't imagine a world without The Times. Perhaps we should start." I could not help but think that such a disappearance might be inevitable after reading about the paper's dire economic straits and contemplating the reading habits of the younger generation. I stopped into my local newspaper shop where nothing much is ever happening at 6:15am. The newspaper stand is located on Flatbush Avenue and Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn where I live. The guy who I hand over my $3.50 over to every morning (The Times and the Wall Street Journal) is from the Middle East and has four fingers on his hand that hands me back change. The newsstand is like most in the city...grungy, poorly lit and dingy. This morning it was packed. There was a line of at least 30 people, mostly African-Americans, standing on line to buy their copies of the New York Times. The Times had not been delivered yet which was unusual but every person wanted their own personal copy with President Obama on the cover. The commemorative issue for posterity!  I tried to imagine what we would do 10 years from now (maybe 5?) when all news was online and we wanted a keepsake of some momentous event. Somehow downloading the Huffington Post or even The New York Times Online would not do it for me.  I thought back to 9/11 and how that horrific event would be covered without the old news publications. It would not be the same as picking up the paper to those two page spreads of person after person killed and their heart-wrenching individual life stories cut short. Not the same. No way. The incongruous juxtaposition of reading about the potential death of newspapers and this morning's long line at my local newsstand with people beaming with pride, speaking languages I could not place and knowing that seeing President Obama on the front page of the most reputable paper legitimized everything will not be forgotten.