I’m really a historian, but I’m writing an essay about my father, Barry Bingham, Jr., who was editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Times from 1971–1986. In 1980 he was preaching the electronic newspapaper, and was excited about the efforts described in the Times article Adrian cites. Nice people thought he was “ahead of his time.” Not so nice people thought he was a kook. He had told his colleagues newspapers must adapt to new technologies or risk being mired in newsprint, “the last dinosaurs in the swamp.” He pushed ahead to start experimenting with dialup electronic delivery in the 1980s (without much support from family shareholders or from his management), but family discord caught up before it got very far and Gannett Company bought the properties. He would be weeping today to see what’s happening in print journalism. He didn’t have the answers, but was very lonely indeed in working on developing solutions. To say no one is responsible is offensive. At least we owe him and others the respect to acknowledge the buggy whip point my father was trying to make: that it’s an information business not a pressing ink into trees business. People still want information–I think.