以《海底2万里》、《80天环游地球》等为我们所熟悉的法国作家J.凡尔纳在140年前写的小说《20世纪的巴黎》中,曾预言了“报纸”的死亡。大致内容是:在未来的20世纪里,人们对报纸的兴趣将逐渐淡漠,报纸读者将大量减少,报纸的批判精神或权威将完全不存在,顶多是作为传达银行等信息的印刷品延续着生命罢了。 J.凡尔纳的大胆预言至少和20世纪是相脱离的,相反本世纪的报纸接受电视、因特网挑战的同时仍以“诞生300年”来最重要的信息提供者,受 J. Verne, a French writer familiar to us known as “20,000 Miles on the Seabed” and “Around the World in 80 Days,” predicted the death of “The Newspaper” in the novel “Paris of the 20th Century” written 140 years ago . The general content is: In the coming 20th century, people’s interest in newspapers will be gradually indifferent, the number of newspaper readers will be greatly reduced, and the critical spirit or authority of newspapers will completely disappear. At most, life as a printout conveying information such as banks continues. Nothing more Jules Verne’s bold prophecy is at least detached from the 20th century. On the contrary, this century’s newspapers, while being challenged by the Internet and still challenged by the Internet, are still the most important information providers who have been born for 300 years.