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Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 08/01/2009
Great line in Matt Welch’s column in Reason about the folly of bailing out newspapers: “Blaming the customer is the second-to-last refuge of any crappy industry, business, or organization (the last refuge being asking for a handout on Capitol Hill).”
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Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 07/01/2009
I ran out of time this morning before I had a chance to praise Jack Shaffer’s piece about newspapers’ failure to invent the web and reinvent themselves. Talk about burying the lead: His best lines came in his kicker:From the beginning, newspapers sought to invent the Web in their own ima ...
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Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 07/01/2009
The great thing about Michael Hirschorn’s piece in the Atlantic about the death of the print New York Times is that it sees beyond the period of mourning and imagines what a post-paper Times could and should be. That’s what journalists should be doing - imagining a different - and perhap ...
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Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 05/01/2009
A lovely review of the Folger Shakespeare Library show on the birth of newspapers by Philip Kennicott in the Washington Post has some gems:If you learn about the world primarily from newspapers, the Folger Shakespeare Library’s exhibition documenting the birth of journalism in the Renaissance ...
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Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 04/01/2009
I was going to start a collection of the letters to readers that newspapers are publishing these days explaining every cutback and consolidation and where surviving features are moving to save paper and money because the times are tough, you know. But there are too many such letters. Here’s on ...
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