Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer stops by the WaPo and pronounces newspapers and magazines dead.

Kim Hart: Steve Ballmer Swings By the Post

Steve Ballmer’s favorite TV show is “Lost,” but he refuses to pay a buck to get it on iTunes–he’d rather deal with a few ads. He still isn’t sure what “Web 2.0” really means. And he predicts that in 10 years, everything will be delivered over the Internet in an ad-supported format. Newspapers and magazines will cease to exist, but content producers will continue to proliferate. And Google’s strategy is baffling to him.