{"id":1702,"date":"2008-10-18T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2008-10-18T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T09:02:00","slug":"unrequired-reading-171008-to-181008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/10\/unrequired-reading-171008-to-181008\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading {17.10.08 to 18.10.08}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/unrequired-reading.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"206\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/unrequired-reading.jpg 480w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/unrequired-reading-100x42.jpg 100w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/unrequired-reading-200x85.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It&#8217;s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so&#8217;s life: <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rss.holdthefrontpage.co.uk\/news\/081017bbcrow.shtml\"><b>Lyons under fire from regional press | Holdthefrontpage.co.uk<\/b><\/a> &#8211; They have a point: &quot;Sir Michael leads the body that will decide whether the plans go ahead. He should not be commenting on these issues during the process and effectively pre-judging it.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/innovate\/FineOnMedia\/archives\/2008\/10\/a_quick_convers.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia\"><b>NY Times&#8217; Andrew Rosenthal: &ldquo;Information Isn&rsquo;t Free&rdquo; | BusinessWeek<\/b><\/a> &#8211; &quot;[H]ow could you possibly start charging people to read the nytimes.com now?\n<p>&ldquo;Maybe ten years ago we [as in, many newspapers and other content sites] could have done something &#8211; held hands and jumped off the cliff together.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&rsquo;t.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s the biggest mistake we ever made.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/views\/blogs\/mixed-media\/2008\/10\/17\/rather-mark-cuban-is-a-modern-day-paley?tid=true\"><b>Dan Rather on the Evening News | Jeff Bercovici<\/b><\/a> &#8211; Dan predicts demise of CBS Evening News: &quot;I would not be surprised to see one or more of the major over-the-airways networks do away with evening news as we know it. Having said that I believe someone, at least some one, will stay in that business.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/greenslade\/2008\/oct\/17\/television-middleeast\"><b>Al Jazeera pays price for tribunal victory | Roy Greenslade<\/b><\/a> &#8211; &quot;Al Jazeera&#39;s argument &#8211; which prevailed as far as the tribunal was concerned &#8211; got much less space with smaller headlines.\n<p>For the record, its point was that journalistic staff felt Burgin&#39;s managerial style was harmfully affected by her being Clark&#39;s wife. As a result she was offered a role in a different department, but refused to accept it.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/17\/AR2008101701082.html\"><b>News Corp. Annual Meeting: Questions About Bailouts; A Deal With Redstone? Murdoch: No, And No | paidContent.org<\/b><\/a> &#8211; &quot;Newspapers in Australia and England newspapers are doing well. Murdoch noted that that things don&#39;t look so well for most others. That said, the merger with Dow Jones has contributed to News Corp. and that company&#39;s properties mutually. &#39;Since Dow Jones was acquired by News Corp., WSJ.com&#39;s audience has surged 90 percent. We continue to believe that a subscription wall is the surest path to growing revenues at WSJ.com.&#39;&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forum4editors.com\/2008\/10\/where-did-norwegian-success-of-vg-come-from\/\"><b>Where did Norwegian success of VG come from? | forum4editors<\/b><\/a> &#8211; Minor market domination sounds like a convincing explanation to that question but here&#39;s their mission statement: &quot;VG&rsquo;s plan is no more to be the best read newspaper in the country &#8211; it wants to be the leading news outlet in Norway. So far so good &#8211; VG is way ahead of its competitors with 3 milion unique users and 335 million page views weekly.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. 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