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Clay Shirky has many criticisms of newspapers, but was one of the industry’s biggest mistakes in the digital era rushing in inexperienced consultants who talked the talk but knew little about businesses and how to build them? As someone wrote in the New York Times in 2001: In 1999 and 2000, I witnessed the arc…

Clay Shirky‘s irritatingly trite post (you find it – Clay doesn’t believe in hyperlinking on his blog) deserves an equally irritating and trite response. But in the spirit of pedantry, let’s just pick on one of his small but sweeping asides: “The Wall Street Journal has a paywall, so we can too!” (Financial information is…

The New Republic has of late played hosted to a debate on democracy and the news media. Hard-boiled readers of this blog will know that it doesn’t believe in the democratic nourishment provided by news content, but is more agnostic on the role played in democracy by media institutions. Seconds out, in the newsprint-coloured trunks,…

Does Sky News want to run the World Service? Well, it does in Australia. According to the the Sydney Morning Herald: A dispute has erupted between the ABC and the subscription television industry, triggered by a call by the pay TV channel Sky News for taxpayer-funded broadcasters to compete with the private sector for government…