Sulzberger discusses the high-tech world p. 26

By: Editorial Staff

THE NEW YORK Times Co. has had mixed results with high-tech information delivery and is "a long way from saying goodbye to our newsprint suppliers," the head of the company said last month.
But newspapers cannot be complacent and must work hard to meet the needs of readers and advertisers, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger said at the Midwest Research Institute's 50th annual dinner.
Sulzberger maintained that computerized news-on-demand services cannot provide the context and fascinating tidbits that newspapers can and that the so-called information superhighway will never replace newspapers for disseminating news or wrapping fish.
"I believe that for a long time to come, this information superhighway ? far from resembling a modern interstate ? will more likely approach a roadway to India: chaotic, crowded and swarming with cows. Or, as one might say, 'udder' confusion."
The institute, one of the the top U.S. research laboratories, presented Sulzberger its Trustee Citation for his contributions to the betterment of communications.