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Unrequired Reading {3.3.09 to 5.3.09}
These are some of the things I’ve been reading. I don’t agree with them all. And it’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:
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Micropayments for news? Wharton says no…
More on the ‘micropayments for news’ debate, this time from Wharton biz school profs: Newspapers and magazines, saddled with high fixed costs and high distribution costs, have been hit by both the free culture online and the ease with which their product – which is costly to produce but easy to copy and paste –…
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Unrequired Reading {2.3.09 to 3.3.09}
These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:
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Post-accountability govt: way down in the hole
How many times have you read democracy will suffer without journalism to keep it honest? I gave up counting a long time ago. But the most powerful anecdotal (of course!) reformulation of this hoary nostrum comes from David Simon in the Washington Post. In the course of railing against a ‘cover-up’ in the Baltimore Police…