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It's not that any one article in this week's New York proves the death of old media (or at least any more so than any other article ever does). It's more of a penumbra thing: The combined take-away from all the media coverage in the new issue of the mag is downright depressing.

We count at least four relevant articles.

• First, there's the de rigueur reminder that Ted Koppel, who ended his ABC career last week, is really as good a hard-news journalist, and as good a guy, as you've always been led to believe, and that TV news will never be the same — not because he's leaving but because in today's corporate environment it can never be the same, which is why he's leaving.

• There's also the feature on the future of news anchors — specifically at the ABC and CBS evening newscasts, but also as a job description more generally. It's 4,500 words on Anderson Cooper and Charlie Gibson and Elizabeth Vargas and Walter Cronkite, and it's all bookended by two deflationary reminders: As news becomes more personalized, CNN chief Jon Klein reminds us at the start of the article, anchors will become irrelevant, and, as a recounting of Peter Jennings's memorial service demonstrates at the end of the article, the only people for whom these succession questions really matter are the anchors themselves, who wonder what their memorials will look like.

• And, then, finally, John Heilemann's Power Grid column makes the increasingly apparent point that Google really, truly is out to destroy the old-media business as it currently exists — that the search company, as Heilemann's headline says, is "the giant asteroid that is going to make the old-media dinosaurs extinct."

(Oh yeah: And there's also the news of the $11 billion in bonuses Goldman will be paying this year. Which reminds all of us media folks that we should have just become bankers instead. So that then one day we could have just bough New York and let it run depressing issues like this one.)

Koppel's Therapy [NYM]
Anchor Roulette [NYM]
Googlephobia [NYM]
Please, Sir, I Want Some More [NYM]