(Blog Post) newspaper, not just in their print form but in their electronic versions too, are old-fashioned things--technologically obsolete, as reasonably happens to hundred-year-old industries. fundamentally, news organizations are about restricting access to news. Full Story »
Posted by Patricia L'Herrou
Michael Wolff of Newser issues a strong, concise response to David Carr's NYT column yesterday attacking news aggregators for building "their audiences and brands on other people’s labors.”
Newspapers, not just in their print form but in their electronic versions, too, are old-fashioned things—technologically obsolete, as reasonably happens to ... More »
Wolff makes some good points about linking and aggregation. But the fact is that his site, Newser, is more parasitic than most, and he fails to wrestle with precisely what obligations he might have to the providers of the content that he uses.
Wolff is certainly not an objective party in this piece, and while there may be some truth in the broad strokes of his critique, he misses that the Times is in fact taking some very innovative steps being taken at the Times to create a better news product for users.
this is provocative journalism on the issue which may at the heart of the future of the newspaper business
As it happens today with e-journalists – using the term VERY loosely and meaning those who write primarily and in many cases, exclusively for on-line media – they are often incapable of looking at the big picture for one of the same reasons they charge that print newspapers are going down for the count, gatekeeping. There is no singular event, development, discovery, movement or evolution that can be pinpointed for the demise of print news. While there are things that played bigger roles (technological revolution, news aggregation, 24-hour cable news proliferation, near-depression-like economy) it is fallacy to take such a microscopic/here-and-now view of things as it pertains to the demise of newspapers and ... More »
The demise of print journalism started in 1928 when Kolin Hager read the news and weather reports in front of a microphone and a video camera at a station in Schenectady, New York. That was some 238 years after Benjamin Harris published the first issue in the colonies of his newspaper, Public Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestic. Economy, scandal, backward thinking management, refusal to develop a new operations paradigm, community cheerleading in place of quality journalism, ... More »
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