AP’s Jeff Wilson hits the note:
Ford’s death hit desert residents hard. A candle flickered at dawn atop his marker on the Walk of Stars on Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs. Flags were lowered to half-staff outside exclusive gated communities.
Social inclusion. That wasn’t his legacy then.
Watching Sky News tonight (8pm), I’m reminded of this famous post:
Schedule. Fill. Someone?
How valuable are newspapers? The WSJ has a rough idea. Take the Minneapolis Star Tribune, America’s 15th largest-selling paper, moving nearly 360,000 copies.
In 1998, America’s third biggest newspaper group, McClatchy Co., paid well over a billion dollars to own the Star Tribune. On Boxing Day, a private equity firm agreed to buy it off them for just over half a billion…
I’m not used to getting dedications in books, but I am especially proud of getting a mention (albeit barely deserved) in Alao Adedayo’s Crude Journalism: The History of Alaroye and African Indigenous Language Newspapers. Don’t be put off by the sub-title this is a rollicking good read — like Rousseau’s Confessions. It tells the story of how a womanizing Nigerian newscaster battles booze (and womanizing) to become a community hero, starting a successful newspaper group in his native Yoruba language.
You can read reviews here, and here.
Unfortunately getting hold of a copy isn’t all that easy…and I’m not lending mine out.