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A day after accepting a buyout and leaving his longtime position at the Washington Post, Tony Kornheiser appeared on Dan LeBatard's radio show and shared some thoughts about the future of the media.

Kornheiser admitted to "a certain amount of anger and resentment" about quitting the newspaper business, but he seemed to think the move was necessary. When LeBatard described newspapers as dying, Kornheiser interrupted him and said, "not dying, dead. They're dead. It's the same feeling that the buggy whip manufacturers must have had when the first car left the assembly line."

Kornheiser, who is 59, also said to LeBatard, "at my age I'm not as upset about it as somebody your age would be." That was an interesting comment because yesterday LeBatard wrote a great post at The Big Lead in which he described himself as part of the old generation of newspaper people who are upset about the way the media is changing.

But the truth is, guys like LeBatard and Kornheiser, who have chosen to quit newspapers and work on TV and in radio, have more to do with the death of newspapers than bloggers do. And give Kornheiser credit for admitting the simple fact that the reason he left print media for broadcast media is for the money. When LeBatard asked him how he felt, Kornheiser answered, "Rich."