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Are New York Times readers aware that the New York Times makes agreements like this? Did the article disclose that, in exchange for access, the paper had agreed not to say that the Lees were a political dynasty?
Back then, a newspaper was a product. A physical thing. But today the news is digital. It moves at lightning speed and is delivered to my desktop computer almost instantly.
Is that the media's job? To invent scenarios that are for the most part implausible just to give them the excuse to have another ten minute panel discussion?
Before camera phones, crime photographs had to be captured by the professionals who made it their business to be at a crime scene as soon as possible -- an effort that required dogged diligence.
I have been amazed at the Aspen Daily News's utter disregard for a major story about its top editor.
Our media watchdogs require close watching. So I'll be editing The Nation's first blog devoted to highlighting the best and worst of current media several times a day.
When journalists see their profession crumbling before them, left without jobs and stripped of what they love to do, it is surely disheartening and deflating -- a feeling of helplessness.
In one stroke, Pulitzer simultaneously elevated the common man and took his spare change. The World was good and readers flocked.
A new Pew survey shows that, even more than a radical shift from traditional media to online sources--what has happened is that news has become a constant, plugged-in condition.
The age of "the newspaper guys" might be ending, but the media moguls will live on.
Unless you're Houdini or David Copperfield, it can be quite the challenge to reinvent yourself in your late 40's 50's, or even 60's to fit into the new era of journalism. But it's by no means impossible.
In the spirit of ecumenical understanding, I hereby deny myself indulgence, for the next six weeks, in the most important thing in my life: Hope.
The intensive debate about the future of newspapers and print media is focused almost exclusively on news reporting and journalism. My focus is on com...
Within communities, there aren't a hell of a lot of alternatives to newspapers. It's news we anticipate, and news we learn one way only: from our local paper.
This morning I got a wake-up call from satirist William K. Wolfrum. "You write for a porn site," he said, referring to The Huffington Post. "Do not!"...
It's painful but it's progress, and if as journalists we choose to put all our valued energy into fighting the inevitable, we may as well join the Flat Earth Society.
