Category: News

  • Don’t email Joel Stein

    Not everything should be interactive … If Martin Luther put his 95 Theses on the wall and then all the townsfolk sent him their comments, and he had to write back to all of them and clarify what he meant, some of the theses would have gotten all watered down… The LA Times‘ Joel Stein…

  • The mordant and very readable Jeff Matthews, strays into media and blogs on the new WSJ.

  • Making news pay…

    In contradiction to the old nostrum that you can’t make money out of news, Fox News has just upped its income per subscriber, according to TV Week: Terms of the overall business deal were not disclosed, but Fox News has been receiving an average of about 70 cents per subscriber per month in recent deals.…

  • Fox News Business Channel

    Although you’re not about to see a Sky News Business Channel anytime soon, viewers in the U.S. will be getting an FNC-flavored biz channel eventually. And the LA Times carries the shocking prediction that Rupert Murdoch will buy venerable but redesigned biz paper, The Wall Street Journal, to help make this dream come true: Murdoch…