You’re wrong.

No matter what you think about the media business today, you’re wrong. I’ve got the facts to prove it.

Are you among those who argue that Americans will be reading newspapers forever and the old media model will bounce back? Consider that circulation’s long, slow tumble has now become a free-fall. It’s at its lowest point since the 1940s and not showing any signs of rebounding.

The loss of readers, joined with the economic downturn and the multitude of media options available to consumers today, has advertisers looking to spend their money elsewhere. So revenue also is decreasing fast.

Some interesting ideas for the future of journalism and new media are being discussed at the 2009 New Media Women Entrepreneurs Summit, which is being held now in Washington, D.C. Conference participants also are sharing their thoughts on Twitter using the hashtag #nmwe. You can follow those Tweets in the chat in this post.

Originally, this post was meant as a warning to newspaper journalists. I planned to offer a biting critique of arrogance in journalism to make reporters aware of how self-righteousness can impact their blogging and their careers.

The headline was “Don’t call your boss a moron in public unless you’re willing to get fired.”

But as I wrote I realized the post would most likely be too harsh to make a convincing argument. So I decided to take a different approach and instead offer another tip for print reporters who blog (and, for that matter, Tweet and regularly use Facebook.)

8. Think before you post. The Internet is a free-wheeling place. Almost anything and everything is acceptable online and can attract a hugely supportive audience. It’s a large part of why the Internet is so entertaining.

But that laissez-faire spirit, when combined with the self-importance inherent in print journalism, also can create a tricky landscape for newspaper reporters to navigate.

My to do list for ianhillmedia has long included feeding headlines from my favorite journalism industry sites into ihm’s header. Today I finally got around to it.

Headlines from Reflections of a Newsosaur, Newspaper Death Watch, Nieman Journalism Lab, the Online Journalism Blog, Romenesko, and Steve Buttry’s blog now feed into Twitter.com/jticker, a new Twitter account I set up today. Recordnet.com’s Multimedia Reporting Blog, to which I contribute, also feeds into the Twitter account.

Jticker then feeds into the ihm headline space above via Magpie RSS.