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Anything new under the sun?
We’re often berating ourselves in the media for overlooking important social and historical developments. Take the rise of Wahabism in Islam, for example. It appeared by stealth, you might imagine. And now read American journalist Charles Dudley Warner from 1881, on the impact of the wires on newspapers. …consider how much space is taken up…
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A little bit of money…
“What if, at the Journal, we spent $100 million a year hiring all the best business journalists in the world? Say 200 of them. And spent some money on establishing the brand but went global — a great, great newspaper with big, iconic names, outstanding writers, reporters, experts. And then you make it free, online…
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Remember when CBS really stood for something?
We come in peace, newslings.
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News Corp bids for WSJ
I hate to blow my own trumpet and say you read it here first…but back on January 2 I was repeating a prediction from the LA Times predicting this. Obviously I wasn’t making clear when it might happen, the sums involved, and was simply passing on something I’d read. But hey, for a moment I…