Comments on: Clay Shirky: wrong about newspapers http://adrianmonck.com/2009/03/clay-shirky-wrong-newspapers/ a blog about news and stuff Thu, 10 May 2012 16:11:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Time to move the debate about journalism’s future on « The Martin Cloake blog http://adrianmonck.com/2009/03/clay-shirky-wrong-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-2976 Time to move the debate about journalism’s future on « The Martin Cloake blog Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:57:39 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=3014#comment-2976 [...] One of my teaching colleges spoke of a frustration that “so much of the debate is consumed in negativity without giving any of the new young journos any interim navigating skills”, and I think some of that is driven by the tendency of so many journalists to re-invent themselves as expert commentators – something I refer to in the comments following a very good post by Adrian Monck in which he debunks some of the commentary. [...] […] One of my teaching colleges spoke of a frustration that “so much of the debate is consumed in negativity without giving any of the new young journos any interim navigating skills”, and I think some of that is driven by the tendency of so many journalists to re-invent themselves as expert commentators – something I refer to in the comments following a very good post by Adrian Monck in which he debunks some of the commentary. […]

]]> By: Chris http://adrianmonck.com/2009/03/clay-shirky-wrong-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-2785 Chris Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:06:26 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=3014#comment-2785 Hooray! Great post. I couldn't agree more with this statement: "US newspapers began their relative decline because the lives of millions of Americans were changed by two things that defined the 20C - cars and television - and that decline started at the beginning of the 1970s." This is such a basic point — yet one that is so often ignored in the debates around the decline of newspapers. Hooray! Great post. I couldn’t agree more with this statement:

“US newspapers began their relative decline because the lives of millions of Americans were changed by two things that defined the 20C — cars and television — and that decline started at the beginning of the 1970s.”

This is such a basic point — yet one that is so often ignored in the debates around the decline of newspapers.

]]> By: Paul Seaman http://adrianmonck.com/2009/03/clay-shirky-wrong-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-2713 Paul Seaman Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:46:20 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=3014#comment-2713 Your take on this is good. I explore some more how Shirky is plain wrong on my PR blog here: http://paulseaman.eu/2009/03/the-death-of-journalism-not-likely/ Your take on this is good. I explore some more how Shirky is plain wrong on my PR blog here:

http://paulseaman.eu/2009/03/the-death-of-journalism-not-likely/

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