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Breaking News: Sky Not Falling

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Hey just so you guys know, the Internet isn’t going to bankrupt newspapers. It isn’t going to steal your sandwich. It isn’t going to kick sand in your face whilst you read the second Foundation book on the beach. It isn’t going deliver a punch to the butt hole at the present date, immediately.
Okay? Everyone […]

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Shafer, The Times and Local Boobery

Friday, July 28th, 2006

I have always been of the belief that newsworthiness can be summed up by the “Oh Shit” principle. If you read something and it makes you say “Oh Shit,” it’s newsworthy. If you read something and you say “Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Shiiiit,” it’s that much more newsworthy.
By this thought process, something that is “Oh Shit” on a […]

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Variation On A Theme

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

The SFGate.com’s Mark Morford has a column this morning lamenting the ephemeral nature of the newspaper and the goofy question, “Are newspapers dying?” The column is very well written and pretty funny, but it got me thinking about he cult of “the blogosphere” and it’s staked hatred for the dreaded Mainstream Media (or MSM as […]

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Bill Bradlee’s Words Of Wisdom for Newspapers

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Romanesko highlights this pearl of wisdom from Bill Bradlee’s interview with Jim Lehrer concerning our national newspaper circulation anemia:
LEHRER: Do you think that the newspapers, faced with this decline in circulation, should reexamine what they’re doing?
BRADLEE: They’re examining, reexamining it. Boy, that’s topic A. Every, every paper you go to, they’ve just had a meeting […]

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