Yeah, but we have a President that visited all 57 states.

Fun fact - The Interstate Highway System wasn’t implemented until 1956, with construction obviously taking much longer. So, back in 1949, I can imagine it would have been much harder to plan a route through all 48 states.

Eeewww!

Ryan Reynolds. You win.

Fun fact - The Interstate Highway System wasn’t implemented until 1956, with construction obviously taking much longer.  So, back in 1949, I can imagine it would have been much harder to plan a route through all 48 states. 

This joke is half-baked.

Jesus, how did it take him a year to NOT complete this?

I’m guessing that swapping tanks on the shitter was one unenviable job of the support vehicle team.

If I told you that there once existed a man who had himself sealed inside a car for over a year while trying to drive to all 48 contiguous states, and then, after not quite managing that, decided to try to collect pajama bottoms from every U.S. governor, you’d very justifiably think I was some loon making things up.

It’s not clear if Haynes and his wife finished the drive

The sad irony is that there was no You Tube back then for him to fully document his stupidity 24/7.

It’s a shame he quit when he was on such a Kaiser roll.

don’t take a blacklight....

Streetcars began as horse drawn cars on tracks because outside of downtoun business districts, most city streets weren’t paved.
As technology advanced, streetcars converted from horse power to electric power via overhead wires.
Once governments started paving streets (due to citizens buying automobiles) and an…

I answered the question. Information is not dead. How it is delivered, i.e, the format, has changed. Print media will not completely disappear either, but it will be reduced in size.

[raises a glass of Fruitopia in salute]

Anyone who seriously has a Utopian vision is either a useful idiot or utterly dangerous. Every attempt at Utopia has always ended in Dystopia, so it makes sense.

Well, you can see in media now. News reporting is dead. The new format is debate. News is changing to the Pardon the Interruption. They all scream at each other, or, they collective scream at some issue. It’s not reporting it’s outraging.

The notion that private equity is killing traditional media outlets is analogous to the argument that General Motors killed the streetcar.

Am I wrong to think that there’s a heavy dose of irony that this particular brand of lament is posted here on Deadspin, where many (most) times facts take a backseat to hot-takey opinions? This place is just as culpable in the death of traditional media as anywhere else. In fact - name me one outlet private or…