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The mordant and very readable Jeff Matthews, strays into media and blogs on the new WSJ.
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How valuable are newspapers? The WSJ has a rough idea. Take the Minneapolis Star Tribune, America’s 15th largest-selling paper, moving nearly 360,000 copies. In 1998, America’s third biggest newspaper group, McClatchy Co., paid well over a billion dollars to own the Star Tribune. On Boxing Day, a private equity firm agreed to buy it off…
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Frank Stanton
For all his accomplishments as an architect of CBS, Dr. Stanton had left the network in disillusion … “just another company with dirty carpets.” Frank Stanton is dead. Along with Paul Lazarsfeld he was one of the most influential quantifiers of opinion in the 20C, and one of the architects of mass media. “Programming should…
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Informed democracies, national conversations and YOU
Informed democracy meet your new friend the national conversation. NBC News anchor Brian Williams has this to say in Time, à propos ‘YOU’ – the person of the year: The problem is that there’s a lot of information out there that citizens in an informed democracy need to know in our complicated world… Does it…