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Newspapers – slow and in denial
I am a sucker for defunct browser maker Marc Andreessen’s hip-shooting style. Here he is giving both barrels to the New York Times. [HT: sans serif] Andreessen: Take the New York Times. They are slow and they are in denial. After 15 years of the Internet, their online division – though it has been very…
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Bernstein blames public for journalism’s woes
Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein has been pushing his Hillary Clinton biography, a mission that took him to a Connecticut school. Kids whose parents may not have been born when Watergate happened, had a chance to hear the man himself blame the public for failing to be interested in what journalism offered them. He addressed a…
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In praise of the micro-audience
There is a quality about blogs which is worth more praise than it gets – the micro-audience. Whenever this blog has hit the heady heights of 300 visits (it varies from 75-100) a day, it has invariably been off the back of some hot-button issue that drags in people not interested in the arcane topics…
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PR vs Journalism
Journalists rely increasingly on PR handouts. Take a paper as prestigious and high-minded as the New York Times. When researchers analysed a day’s output, they found 147 out of 255 stories came from flacks. An executive from ad agency J.Walter Thompson reckons 60% of the NYT‘s stories come from PR. The problem is industry wide.…