And then I told Mitt Romney that we in the newspaper game really don’t have much sympathy for electric utilities losing business to home solar power systems, independent auto dealers who don’t want to compete with Tesla’s vertically integrated retail operation or taxi companies being pushed aside by Lyft, Uber and whatever all those zippy electric scooters are called.
Newspapers, after all, are another one of those pursuits gracefully referred to as “legacy industries,” dinosaurs who bestrode the world for a long time but are now being gnawed away by herds of online rat-like creatures.