Languages take about five to ten years to mature to the point where they are really useful.
This means that the reporters and most columnists have largely lost interest in them by the time they become stable and sufficiently capable for complex programming projects. The only articles you see about C are in help columns. The compilers, interpreters and libraries are improving and will continue to improve for quite some time. There will probably be some more evolution in the language. Let's just hope that the sort of revolutionary change that occurred between versions 1.0 and 1.1 does not occur very often, though.