Does it need the competition from news aggregators and blogs to further the decline of classic journalism? I don’t think so.
Take a look at the following screenshot. It was taken from the website of German weekly DIE ZEIT.

For our English readers follows a rough translation:
“SOCIETY”
[Picture]
“Police arrested the wrong person”
“The first success of a manhunt already [...]

Totally works as intended: Buy yourself yellow shoes, and people will look at you differently.
Being otherwise dressed conservatively helps, though.

I can’t believe how severely I overconsume information.
I take it in from when I get up, eating my breakfast in front of my feeds, until I go to bed, checking my emails one last time before I switch off the light.
Guess I need to get one of these “lives” one day.

I just read a headline in a major German newspaper: “Lack of communication in families threatens childrens’ development”.
They described the trend that families spend more time in front of computers and TV, and less time talking to each other.
That reminded me of a feeling that I’ve had for a long time. In both school and [...]

The German Constitutional Court declared the German telecommunication data retention (“Vorratsdatenspeicherung”) unlawful this morning. All laws are null and void, saved data has to be deleted.
They didn’t challenge the concept or the EU guideline in general, but found that the German legal framework needs more judiciary oversight, clear definitions of when to use it, and [...]