Warren Buffett, reputed to be one of the smartest men in the world, jumped into the newspaper business eight years ago.  Last week, he jumped back out.  What happened?  He was losing money, that's what. Eight years ago, I wrote a rude article on AT about the print media committing suicide.  They need readers, millions and millions of readers.  Did they ever put pressure on the public schools  to do a better job with reading instruction?  No.  Apparently, the who-cares-about-literacy-approach was fine with them.  Newspaper people did not seem to grasp that they were committing suicide.  Here we are, eight years later.  Only one third of public school students are proficient in reading.  There are probably fewer people in the country who can actually read and understand a newspaper, so fewer newspapers will be read — an...(Read Full Article)